How Long to Read New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction by Magali Cornier Michael

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this engaging, optimistic close reading of five late twentieth-century novels by American women, Magali Cornier Michael illuminates the ways in which their authors engage with ideas of communal activism, common commitment, and social transformation. The fictions she examines imagine coalition building as a means of moving toward new forms of nonhierarchical justice; for ethnic cultures that, as a result of racist attitudes, have not been assimilated, power with each other rather than power over each other is a collective goal.Michael argues that much contemporary American fiction by women offers models of care and nurturing that move away from the private sphere toward the public and political. Specifically, texts by women from such racially marked ethnic groups as African American, Asian American, Native American, and Mexican American draw from the rich systems of thought, histories, and experiences of these hybrid cultures and thus offer feminist and ethical revisions of traditional concepts of community, coalition, subjectivity, and agency.Focusing on Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven, Ana Castillo’s So Far from God, and Toni Morrison’s Paradise, Michael shows that each writer emphasizes the positive, liberating effects of kinship and community. These hybrid versions of community, which draw from other-than-dominant culturally specific ideas and histories, have something to offer Americans as the United States moves into an increasingly diverse twenty-first century. Michael provides a rich lens through which to view both contemporary fiction and contemporary life.

How long is New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction?

New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction by Magali Cornier Michael is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction?

New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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