Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Writing

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: What’s (Still) Wrong with Images of Women?

   1. Introduction What’s (Still) Wrong with Images of Women?

      • Angela Laflen

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3. Coming-of-Age with Mass Media

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   2. (Re)Visualizing History in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

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   3. Transforming Culture and Consciousness in Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country

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4. Witnessing Visual Manipulation

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   2. There Were Signs and I Missed Them

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   3. The Politics of Vanishing

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5. Spectatorship in an Expanded Field of Vision

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   2. Against Visual Objectivity in Gish Jen’s “Birthmates” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Ultrasound”

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   3. Queering Spectatorship in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home

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   4. Conclusion Confronting Visuality in the Digital Age

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6. Back Matter

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Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality.

• culture
• fiction
• history of literature
• Tradition
• women

“In her compelling monograph Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing, Angela Laflen offers an insightful perspective on a diverse selection of acclaimed contemporary women writers … .  Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing is a stimulating and worthwhile contribution to the evolving field of feminist scholarship on the visual in literary texts.” (Roger Knight, TSWL Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 2015)

"Through a thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible argument, Angela Laflen uses feminism, cultural studies, and critical race theories to examine a wide range of visual representations and their effects in literature by well-known authors, such as Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood, as well as some up and coming ethnic writers." - Eleanor Ty, Professor of English, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and author of Unfastened:Globality and Asian North American Narratives and The Politics of the Visible

Angela Laflen is Associate Professor of English at Marist College, USA.

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