A gilded awakening: othering the new woman narrative in Anzia Yezierska’s short fiction
Abizanda Cardona, María (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Resumen: 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 from this intersectional inquiry into New Woman activism and literary production, this paper examines the short fiction of the Polish-American New Woman writer Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970). Through the appropriation of the awakening narrative, Yezierska sheds light on the failure of the first-wave feminist project to empower women in outsider locations and proposes alternative paths to liberation construed upon the working-class, Jewish values of community and solidarity, thus putting forward an alternative to the exclusionary designs of white feminism and anticipating intersectional demands by second and third wave feminism.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1344/Lectora2024.30.11.
Año: 2024
Publicado en: LECTORA-REVISTA DE DONES I TEXTUALITAT 30 (2024), 205–224
ISSN: 1136-5781
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)
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Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1344/Lectora2024.30.11.
Año: 2024
Publicado en: LECTORA-REVISTA DE DONES I TEXTUALITAT 30 (2024), 205–224
ISSN: 1136-5781
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)
Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. Exportado de SIDERAL (2024-11-08-10:38:27)
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