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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.
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Front Matter
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About the author
MELISSA BOSTROM is a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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Book Title: Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories
Authors: Melissa Bostrom
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607484
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Melissa Bostrom 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7990-2Published: 25 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53850-8Published: 25 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60748-4Published: 06 August 2007
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 224
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, North American Literature, Fiction, Regional and Cultural Studies