Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
By Mary Ellen SnodgrassThe author Laura ESQUIVEL applies the same form of matriarchal history in Like Water for Chocolate (1989), which records the damage to women by a family tradition requiring the daughter, Tita de la Garza, to abjure marriage and personal ...
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
By Mary Ellen SnodgrassLeft motherless in toddlerhood, she lived in Knutsford, Cheshire, with Hannah Lumb, a maternalaunt, who educated hernieceathome. At age 12 Gaskell advancedtothe Byerley sisters' boarding academy in Warwickshire.
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
By Kathy J. WhitsonWidely acclaimed today , Their Eyes was largely dismissed upon publication because it was out of step with the decade's penchant for proletarian realist fiction like Richard Wright's Native Son . Indeed , Wright wrote a scathing review ...
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
By Mary Ellen SnodgrassEntries discuss the origins and development of feminist literature, authors and their major works, literary forms, genres, motifs, and issues; includes a chronology, bibliographies, and a filmography.
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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature
By Kathy J. WhitsonWhat distinguishes this encyclopedia from the many other volumes addressing feminist literature or literature by women is the interpretative summary in each entry. The volume closes with a list of works cited.