A Gilded Awakening: Othering the New Woman Narrative in Anzia Yezierska’s Short Fiction
The Progressive Era’s New Woman, epitomized in Edna Pontellier’s awakening, has been hailed as an icon of feminist rebellion. Recent scholarship, however, has interrogated the subversive potential of this icon, exposing its conservatist purchase on classism, eugenics, and white supremacism. Drawing...
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Universitat de Barcelona
2024-10-01
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| Series: | Lectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/43232 |