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Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction, Hardback Book

Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction Hardback

Part of the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series series

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Though often unnoticed by scholars of literature and history, Polish American women have for decades been fighting back against the patriarchy they encountered in America and the patriarchy that followed them from Poland.

Through close readings of several Polish American and Polish Canadian novels and short stories published over the last seven decades, Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction traces the evolution of this struggle and women’s efforts to construct gendered and classed ethnicity. Focusing predominantly on work by North American born and immigrant authors that represents the Polish American Catholic tradition, Grażyna J.

Kozaczka puts texts in conversation with other American ethnic literatures.

She positions ethnic gender construction and performance at an intersection of social class, race, and sex.

She explores the marginalization of ethnic female characters in terms of migration studies, theories of whiteness, and the history of feminist discourse.

Writing the Polish American Woman in Postwar Ethnic Fiction tells the complex story of how Polish American women writers have shown a strong awareness of their oppression and sought empowerment through resistive and transgressive behaviors.

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