Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

by Mary Jo Bona

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498525857
• ISBN13: 9781498525855
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"