Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

by Mary Jo Bona

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary argues that cloth-work serves as a textual signifier of mobility and preservation, constituting a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and a distrust of the self. Bona develops a new framework for examining analogies between weaving and storytelling, the flow of needlework across place and time, women's labor and status, and the power of cloth-work as both means and metaphor...

• 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"