Navigating Women is Friendships in American Literature and Culture 1st Edition by Kristi Branham, Kelly Reames 3031080025 9783031080029

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ISBN 10: 3031080025

ISBN 13: 9783031080029

Author: Kristi Branham, Kelly L. Reames

This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance. Instead, this book represents friendships as mature and meaningful relationships that contribute to identity formation and political coalition. Both the supportive and competitive aspects of friendships are shown to be crucial to women’s identities as individuals, political citizens, and artists. Addressing the complexities of how 20th- and 21st-century cultural texts construe women’s friendships as they navigate patriarchal institutions, this collection advances scholarship on friendship beyond men and masculine models.

Navigating Women is Friendships in American Literature and Culture 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Navigating Women’s Friendships into the Twenty-First Century

Part I. Friendship as Identity

2. Entangled Roots: “Old Friends” Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation

3. The Gothic’s Creation of Women’s Friendship in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House

4. Political Progress and Social Stall: Groupthink, Smart Talk, and Mary McCarthy’s Friendship Novel

5. Girlfriend Epistemology in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Part II. Friendship as Support

6. “We Will Work Together”: Interclass Women’s Collabships in Progressive Era Novels

7. Fleur’s Kinship, Pauline’s Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks

8. “What Obligation Do I Have Toward Her?”: College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar

9. “The Tenderness of One Woman for Another”: Female Friendship and Revolt in the Twentieth-Century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Part III. Friendship as Challenge

10. “Feeling You Near”: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Friendship with Mary Callery

11. “These Sweet Trees”: Alice Walker, June Jordan, and Womanist Friendship

12. Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga’s Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness

13. Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady’s Off the Road

14. “I Prefer to Think That History Made Her:” Exploring the Relationship Between Alice Dunbar-Nelso

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