Meridel Le Sueur's Feminist <em>Bildungsroman</em>: When Class Meets Gender

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  • Carolina Núñez Puente Carolina Núñez Puente, University of La Coruña (Spain), has a PhD in English, a licenciatura in Germanic Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and an MA in Women's and Gender Studies (Rutgers University, USA). She is the author of Feminism and Dialogics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Meridel Le Sueur, Mikhail M. Bakhtin. Valencia: Javier Coy, (forthcoming).

Abstract

American and communist, Meridel Le Sueur's legacy is hardly known. On the contrary, Mikhail Bakhtin's work is currently being reread by feminist critics. Through a feminist Bakhtinian critical perspective, this article examines Le Sueur's forgotten The Girl as the feminist Bildungsroman Bakhtin only sketched out in an unpublished book. Résumé Le legs de l'Américain et communiste' Meridel Le Sueur est peu connu. Au contraire, l'œuvre de Mikhail Bakhtin est présentement relu par des critiques féministes. Au moyen d'une perspective féministe Bakhtinienne, cet article se penche sur The Girl, l'œuvre oubliée de Le Sueur, comme étant le Bildungsroman féministe dont Balkhin n'avait fait que l'esquisse dans un livre non publié.

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Published

2006-09-09

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Vol. 31 No. 1 (2006)

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Original Research

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