American Women Writers and Wars on Foreign Soil—Part Two
In the second post by Shelli Homer and Brianne Jaquette they discuss the poetry and fiction of American Women Writers on war, and they include a bibliography of additional primary and secondary resources.
Continue ReadingAmerican Women Writers and Wars on Foreign Soil—Part One
Shelli Homer and Brianne Jaquette in the fifth and sixth posts of SSAWW’s series introduce readers to American women that write about war. Part one overviews the topic and discusses nonfiction writing. Part two turns to poetry and fiction and includes a bibliography of additional primary and secondary resources.
Continue ReadingThe Lady Vanishes: American Women Writers and the Noir Canon
In the fifth SHAW post Stefania Ciocia revisits the noir canon. Dr Ciocia offers a new reading of the gender dynamics in classic films and texts.
Continue ReadingHow Nineteenth-Century White American Women Writers Have Facilitated the Rise of Christian Feminism
Rachel Griffis, in the fourth post of SSAWW’s series, connects white nineteenth-century American women writers with contemporary white Christian feminism.
Continue ReadingBelle, Books, and Ballot: The Life and Writing of Nineteenth Century Reformer Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913)
Ana Stevenson, author of the third post in the SSAWW series, focuses on the lesser-known author and activist Lillie Devereux Blake to introduce her life and work as an exemplary, albeit largely forgotten, nineteenth-century reformer.
Continue ReadingFrom National Histories of Advice Discourses to a ‘Transatlantic Domestic Dialogue’
The final three contributions in the SHAW series offer some distinct case studies. In the fourth post, Grace Lees-Maffei discusses the significance of moving from single nation accounts towards transnational history in her recent research project on domestic advice books.
Continue ReadingWhite American Women in Paris and the Life of Literary Modernism
In the second post of SSAWW’s series, Bethany Mannon explores how three lesser known white American women writers (Janet Flanner, Sylvia Beach and Kay Boyle) go beyond the “‘expected’ subjects of women’s autobiography.”
Continue Reading(In)Visibility, Race and Ethnicity in American Women’s Writing throughout the Twentieth Century
This blog series focused on American women writers, a partnership between The Society for the Study of American Women Writers and U.S. Studies Online, explores the field through several lenses that range from recovery to religion and from war to transnationalism. Leah Milne opens the series with a post about how ethnic American women writers tackle the idea and status of invisibility.
Continue ReadingBlogs on Togs: Dress History Research in an Overseas Archive
SHAW’s series opens with Alison Goodrum’s discussion of visiting the designer Elizabeth Hawes’ archives in New York. Professor Goodrum explores the challenges and joys of both using overseas archives and starting a blog about her research trip.
Continue ReadingStorify of our #bookhour twitter chat on AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
During this 90 minute chat we discussed the representation of “good” and “bad” blackness in the novel, and how this resonates with Adichie’s refusal of the Afropolitan label and Ifem’s “blackless” Nigeria. We debated what the novel loses in prioritising the love story at the close of the narrative, and some of the weaker aspects of the writing, such as Adichie’s representation of success, contemporary media and blogging as a form of social commentary. Finally we ended the discussion with reflections on Americanah’s effortlessly successful heroine, Ifem – how much does femininity help Ifem in America? How do we make sense of her success in relation to Obinze who more fittingly reflects the Afropolitan theme of being “hungry for choice and certainty”? Is the title a critique on her development and her story?
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