Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature: Thresholds in Women's Writing

Introduction: Threshold Thinking, Rita Bode and Kristin J. Jacobson.- Section I Early American Thresholds Introduction: Early American Women Writers: The Potentiality of the Continual Self-Creating Act, Kristin Allukian.- 'Sweet Cement:' Occasioning Bathsheba Bowers' An Alarm Sounded to Prepare the Inhabitants of the World to Meet the Lord in the Way of His Judgment, Nicholas K. Mohlmann.- Beyond 'The Bars': Lucy Terry Prince and the Margins of the Colonial Landscape, Ann A. Huse.- The Liminal Time of Friendship: Narrative Dely in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette , Molly Ball.- 'We cannot be indifferent': Native Americans and the Students of the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies, Gregory D. Specter.- Section II Nineteenth Century Thresholds Introduction: Resistance and Alternative Histories in Nineteenth-century Women's Writing, Rickie-Ann Legleitner.- Changing is Surviving: Transformation as Resistance in the Ojibwe Stories of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sarah Olivier.- Inhabiting the Liminal: The Architecture of Single Life in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction, Michelle Gaffner Wood.- Contesting Sentimentalism: Animal-Human Bonds and Boundaries in Grace Greenwood's History of My Pets , Kerstin Rudolph.- 'The Third Sex': Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces, Margaret Jay Jessee.- ' Costume de ghost' : Liminality in Grace King's Balcony Stories , Stephanie Durrans.- Section III Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First-Century Thresholds Introduction: A Fragile Optimism: Writing Liminality and Hybridity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Leslie Allison.- La mujer en llamas : Legal Storytelling in Lucha Corpi's Black Widow's Wardrobe , Sandra Ruiz.- States of Exception and Arab American Women's Poetry After 9/11: Liminality and Community in Suheir Hammad's 'first writing since' and D.H. Melhem's 'September 11, 2001, World Trade Center, Aftermath', Birgit Spengler.- Still Moving: Gabrielle Bell's Graphic Auto-Fiction, Shiamin Kwa.- Extreme Sex: Contemporary American Women Writers at the Margins, Beth Widmaier Capo.- Afterword: Beyond Thresholds: Suggestions for Further Research and Teaching Resources.