Liminality, hybridity, and American women's literature: thresholds in women's writing

This work highlights the multiplicity of American women's writing related to liminality and hybridity from its beginnings to the contemporary moment.

Often informed by notions of crossing, intersectionality, transition, and transformation, these concepts as they appear in American women's writing contest as well as perpetuate exclusionary practices involving class, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, and sex, among other variables.

The collection's introduction, three unit introductions, 14 individual essays, and afterword facilitate a process of encounters, engagements, and conversations within, between, among, and across the rich polyphony that constitutes the creative acts of American women writers.