Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing Kristin J. Jacobson

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• ISBN 10:  3319738518
• ISBN 13: 9783319738512
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

This book highlights the multiplicity of American women’s writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment. Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women’s writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables. The collection’s introduction, three unit introductions, fourteen individual essays, and afterward facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers. The contributors offer fresh perspectives on canonical writers as well as introduce readers to new authors. As a whole, the collection demonstrates American women’s writing is “threshold writing,” or writing that occupies a liminal, hybrid space that both delimits borders and offers enticing openings.

Table of contents:

1. 1. Introduction: Threshold Thinking
2. Part I. Early American Thresholds
3. 2. Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act
4. 3. “Sweet Cement”: Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers’s An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgments
5. 4. Beyond “The Bars”: Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape
6. 5. The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Delay in Hannah Webster Foster’s The Coquette
7. 6. “We Cannot Be Indifferent”: Native Americans and the Students of the Bethlehem Boarding School
8. Part II. Nineteenth-Century Thresholds
9. 7. Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
10. 8. Changing Is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
11. 9. Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Fiction
12. 10. Contesting Sentimentalism: Human–Animal Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood’s History of My Pets
13. 11. “The Third Sex”: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces
14. 12. “Costume de ghost”: Liminality in Grace King’s Balcony Stories
15. Part III. Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Thresholds
16. 13. A Fragile Optimism: Writing Liminality and Hybridity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
17. 14.  La mujer en llamas: Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi’s Black Widow’s Wardrobe
18. 15. States of Exception and Arab American Women’s Poetry After 9/11: Liminality and Community in Suheir Hammad’s “first writing since” and D. H. Melhem’s “September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath”
19. 16. Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell’s Graphic Auto-Fiction
20. 17. “A Mash-Up World”: Hybridity and Storytelling in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
21. 18. Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins
22. 19. Afterword: Beyond Thresholds—Suggestions for Further Research

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