Bolaki, Stella. Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction.

Dense and thoroughly researched, Stella Bolaki’s Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction attempts to “open up more space for debate around the Bildungsroman by examining its intersection with life-writing forms that seem unable to coexist harmoniously with...

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Hovedforfatter: Papayianni, Chrysavgi
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: European journal of American studies 2022
Online adgang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Dense and thoroughly researched, Stella Bolaki’s Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction attempts to “open up more space for debate around the Bildungsroman by examining its intersection with life-writing forms that seem unable to coexist harmoniously with it,” as Bolaki mentions in her introduction (13). More specifically, the book focuses on four well-known ethnic American women writers and their stories of trauma, death, disrupted movement, margi...