American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
© 2007
Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
Authors: Bostrom, M.
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- About this book
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This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness.
- About the authors
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MELISSA BOSTROM is a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Story
Pages 9-41
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The Female Sexual Economy
Pages 43-81
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Economies of Whiteness
Pages 83-130
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Economies
Pages 131-155
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
- Authors
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- M. Bostrom
- Series Title
- American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
- Copyright
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Melissa Bostrom
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-60748-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230607484
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-7990-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-53850-8
- Series ISSN
- 2634-579X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 224
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