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Rescripting the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Eudora Welty's "Moon Lake".

The article explores the rescripting of coming-of-age narrative in Eudora Welty's novel "Moon Lake." Topics discussed include limitation of camp experience by gender, race and class identities from the eyes of White girls, the act of Easter's submersions that reflects divisions by racial class and g...

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Publicado en:Women's Studies Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 147 - 169
Autor principal: Ford, Sarah Gilbreath
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2024
Materias:
Moon Lake (Book : Welty)
Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
Coming of age
Gender
Social classes
Race
Patriarchy
White women
21st century (Literary period)
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Sumario:The article explores the rescripting of coming-of-age narrative in Eudora Welty's novel "Moon Lake." Topics discussed include limitation of camp experience by gender, race and class identities from the eyes of White girls, the act of Easter's submersions that reflects divisions by racial class and gender, patriarchy and empowerment of White middle class girls, and the use of evolutionary time to challenge cultural understandings of the human/nonhuman boundary through submersion in nature.