This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late...
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This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture. This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-217) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Temporal Politics; Introduction; 1 The Problem of Static Time: Totalization, the End of History, and the End of the 1960s; Part II: Feminism as Static Time; 2 Heir Apparent: Legacies of the 1960s in The Women's Room and Vida; 3 Dead-End Job: The Stepford Wives, Domestic Labor, and the End of History; 4 Promiscuous Times: Rubyfruit Jungle, Fear of Flying, and the Desire for the Event; Part III: Feminism as Futurity; 5 Alice Walker's Hindsight: Meridian, The Color Purple, and the Production of Prolepsis
6 My Mother, My Self: Sentiment and the Transcendence of Time in The Joy Luck Club and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodCoda: Hurried Woman Tales; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
