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Community Boundaries and Border Crossings

Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers

Edited by Kristen Lillvis; Robert Miltner and Molly Fuller - Contributions by Leila Aouadi; Sarah A. Chavez; Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh; Kate Nygren; Lydia Efthymia Roupakia; Dallel Sarnou; Hannah Swamidoss; Jana Tigchelaar and Tana Jean Welch

Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate. These liminal spaces—physical and virtual, local and global—provide opportunities for diversifying discussions on diaspora, cultural hybridity, and ethnic identity. Ethnic women writers make significant contributions to this dialogue regarding the reconfiguration of people and their perimeters.

A multigenre and multicultural text, Community Boundaries and Border Crossings explores the novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, testimonios, plays, poems, and hybrid poetics of established and emerging ethnic women writers. This collection of critical essays highlights the new zones of cultural contact and exchange that are defining the twenty-first century. Each chapter reflects an awareness of cultural changes and challenges, engaging readers in a richly productive conversation concerning the interconnectedness of border crossings and community boundaries.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 246 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-3948-7 • Hardback • December 2016 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-3949-4 • eBook • December 2016 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Series: Transforming Literary Studies
Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
Kristen Lillvis is associate professor of English at Marshall University.

Robert Miltner is professor of English at Kent State University at Stark.

Molly Fuller is teaching fellow in literature at Kent State University.
Preface
Kristen Lillvis
Introduction
Molly Fuller
Part One: Deconstructing Boundaries

Language, Matter, Movement: Dynamic Community in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution
Tana Jean Welch
Solidarity and Simultaneity in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
Kristen Lillvis
Border Transgression, Adolescent Transition, and the Quest for Justice in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
Molly Fuller
Part Two: Intra-spaces and Liminality
The Modernist Aesthetic and the Immigrant: Anzia Yezierska’s Communities of Countrymen
Jana Tigchelaar
“Life Between Cultures”: Reconfiguring the Community in the Young Adult Novels of Mitali Perkins
Hannah Swamidoss
Zora Neale Hurston’s Differential Consciousness
Kate Nygren
Oppositional Identities and the Mestiz@ Writer
Sarah A. Chavez
Part Three: Diaspora and Disruption
“Take Plight's Sure Paradoxes With You. Jump.”: Dismantling Canons and Transcending Gender Constructs in the Poems of Colette Bryce and Sinéad Morrissey
Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
What Recognition? Authenticity, Agency, and Responsibility in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
Palestinian Women’s Life Narrative: Identity, Resistance, and the Politics of Belonging
Leila Aouadi
Border Crossing in British Anglophone Arab Women’s Narratives: Issues of Home, Diaspora, and In-betweenness
Dallel Sarnou

Community Boundaries and Border Crossings

Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers

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Hardback
eBook
Summary
Summary
  • Globalization and transnationalism have reshaped our communities and their borderlines. Communities exceed fixed boundaries, existing instead in the liminal spaces where narratives intersect, clash, or cooperate. These liminal spaces—physical and virtual, local and global—provide opportunities for diversifying discussions on diaspora, cultural hybridity, and ethnic identity. Ethnic women writers make significant contributions to this dialogue regarding the reconfiguration of people and their perimeters.

    A multigenre and multicultural text, Community Boundaries and Border Crossings explores the novels, short stories, essays, autobiographies, testimonios, plays, poems, and hybrid poetics of established and emerging ethnic women writers. This collection of critical essays highlights the new zones of cultural contact and exchange that are defining the twenty-first century. Each chapter reflects an awareness of cultural changes and challenges, engaging readers in a richly productive conversation concerning the interconnectedness of border crossings and community boundaries.
Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 246 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
    978-1-4985-3948-7 • Hardback • December 2016 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
    978-1-4985-3949-4 • eBook • December 2016 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
    Series: Transforming Literary Studies
    Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
Author
Author
  • Kristen Lillvis is associate professor of English at Marshall University.

    Robert Miltner is professor of English at Kent State University at Stark.

    Molly Fuller is teaching fellow in literature at Kent State University.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Preface
    Kristen Lillvis
    Introduction
    Molly Fuller
    Part One: Deconstructing Boundaries

    Language, Matter, Movement: Dynamic Community in Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution
    Tana Jean Welch
    Solidarity and Simultaneity in Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose
    Kristen Lillvis
    Border Transgression, Adolescent Transition, and the Quest for Justice in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
    Molly Fuller
    Part Two: Intra-spaces and Liminality
    The Modernist Aesthetic and the Immigrant: Anzia Yezierska’s Communities of Countrymen
    Jana Tigchelaar
    “Life Between Cultures”: Reconfiguring the Community in the Young Adult Novels of Mitali Perkins
    Hannah Swamidoss
    Zora Neale Hurston’s Differential Consciousness
    Kate Nygren
    Oppositional Identities and the Mestiz@ Writer
    Sarah A. Chavez
    Part Three: Diaspora and Disruption
    “Take Plight's Sure Paradoxes With You. Jump.”: Dismantling Canons and Transcending Gender Constructs in the Poems of Colette Bryce and Sinéad Morrissey
    Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
    What Recognition? Authenticity, Agency, and Responsibility in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
    Lydia Efthymia Roupakia
    Palestinian Women’s Life Narrative: Identity, Resistance, and the Politics of Belonging
    Leila Aouadi
    Border Crossing in British Anglophone Arab Women’s Narratives: Issues of Home, Diaspora, and In-betweenness
    Dallel Sarnou

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