The Girl: constructions of the girl in contemporary fiction by women

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Introduction R.O.Saxton Where Is She Going, Where Are We Going, at Century's End? The Girl as Site of Cultural Conflict in Joyce Carol Oates's The Model B.Daly Self-Possession, Dolls, Beatlemania, Loss: Telling the Girl's Own Story G.Hausknecht The Battleground of the Adolescent Girl's Body B.Boudreau When the Back Door is Closed and the Front Yard is Dangerous: The Space of Girlhood in Toni Morrison's Fiction D.Cadman Dizzying Possibilities, Plots, and Endings: Girlhood in Jill McCorkle's Ferris Beach E.A.Walker 'I Ain't No FRIGGIN' LITTLE WIMP': The Girl 'I' Narrator in Fiction by Women R.Curry Coming of Age in the Snare of History: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother D.Simmons Subversive Storytelling: The Construction of Lesbian Girlhood through Fantasy and Fairytale in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit I.A.Gamallo But That Was in Another Country: Girlhood and the Contemporary 'Coming to America' Narrative R.M.George Notes on Contributors

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