Ann Rayson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1675063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Rayson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Rayson |
| SIGNATURE | RAYSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Emerson to King
Journal Article From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and. the Politics of Protest. Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. x+257 pages. $55.00 cloth. Get access From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest. Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. x+257 pages. $55.00 cloth. Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Vo…
Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? The African American Woman in Quicksand and Tar Baby
Both Helga Crane in Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Jadine Childs in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby (1981) are faced with racial and sexual choices. Both women, orphans taken in by an aunt and uncle, are courted by white European men and black American men who represent respectively, wealth, position, power, and asexuality versus poverty, anti-intellectualism, and sexuality. Helga rejects her European suitor, the Danish painter Axel Olsen, while Ja…
Obasan
Joy Kogawa is a well known Japanese-Canadian poet and novelist. Her award-winning autobiographical novel, Obasan (1981),[1] examines the personal wartime internment experience of the author through the fictionalized persona of Naomi Nakane and her Aunt Emily Kato. Obasan, the title character, is Naomi's other aunt, the one who raises her when World War II destroys the family. Emily is a political activist, the voice of protest and conscience in t…
Beneath the Mask
Journal Article Beneath the Mask: Autobiographies of Japanese-American Women Get access Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 1987, Pages 43–57, https://doi.org/10.2307/467472 Published: 01 March 1987
Euroamerican Ethnic Literature in the 1980s
Journal Article Euroamerican Ethnic Literature in the 1980s Get access Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 95–99, https://doi.org/10.2307/467158 Published: 01 June 1981
Motherhood in the Novels of Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble views motherhood not as an institution under male control, as it is so often defined, but as the relationship of a woman to her powers of reproduction and to her children. Having a child, in Drabble's novels, is not an end in itself, but one effective way available to a woman-and not to a man-of growing and coping with change, of learning to live. Children, she says, give her the greatest pleasure in life and are more important t…
Dust Tracks on a Road
Beneath the Mask
Journal Article Beneath the Mask: Autobiographies of Japanese-American Women Get access Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 1987, Pages 43–57, https://doi.org/10.2307/467472 Published: 01 March 1987
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road
Motherhood in the Novels of Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble views motherhood not as an institution under male control, as it is so often defined, but as the relationship of a woman to her powers of reproduction and to her children. Having a child, in Drabble's novels, is not an end in itself, but one effective way available to a woman-and not to a man-of growing and coping with change, of learning to live. Children, she says, give her the greatest pleasure in life and are more important t…
Euroamerican Ethnic Literature in the 1980s
Journal Article Euroamerican Ethnic Literature in the 1980s Get access Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 8, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 95–99, https://doi.org/10.2307/467158 Published: 01 June 1981
Beneath the Mask
Journal Article Beneath the Mask: Autobiographies of Japanese-American Women Get access Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 14, Issue 1, March 1987, Pages 43–57, https://doi.org/10.2307/467472 Published: 01 March 1987
Obasan
Joy Kogawa is a well known Japanese-Canadian poet and novelist. Her award-winning autobiographical novel, Obasan (1981),[1] examines the personal wartime internment experience of the author through the fictionalized persona of Naomi Nakane and her Aunt Emily Kato. Obasan, the title character, is Naomi's other aunt, the one who raises her when World War II destroys the family. Emily is a political activist, the voice of protest and conscience in t…
Foreign Exotic or Domestic Drudge? The African American Woman in Quicksand and Tar Baby
Both Helga Crane in Nella Larsen's Quicksand (1928) and Jadine Childs in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby (1981) are faced with racial and sexual choices. Both women, orphans taken in by an aunt and uncle, are courted by white European men and black American men who represent respectively, wealth, position, power, and asexuality versus poverty, anti-intellectualism, and sexuality. Helga rejects her European suitor, the Danish painter Axel Olsen, while Ja…
From Emerson to King
Journal Article From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and. the Politics of Protest. Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. x+257 pages. $55.00 cloth. Get access From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest. Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford UP, 1997. x+257 pages. $55.00 cloth. Ann Rayson Ann Rayson University of Hawaii at Manoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Vo…
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