Background
Fraiman, Susan Diana was born on January 4, 1957 in New York City. Daughter of Arnold Guy and Genevieve (Lam) Fraiman.
(Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the B...)
Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the Bildungsroman and turns to conduct books and novels of development by women for a new poetics of growing up. In subtle readings of works by Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, Fraiman argues that a heroine's progress toward masterful selfhood is by no means assured. Focusing on counternarratives in which girls do not enter the world so much as flounder on its doorstep, Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority. Written with grace and theoretical mastery, Unbecoming Women emphasises the dialectical as well as subversive aspects of a genre long considered homogeneous. The result is a compelling contribution to feminist genre criticism that, charting female destiny in Georgian and Victorian texts, also postmodernizes the novel of development.
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English language and literature educator
Fraiman, Susan Diana was born on January 4, 1957 in New York City. Daughter of Arnold Guy and Genevieve (Lam) Fraiman.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1978; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1988.
Assistant professor department English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1987-1993; associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1993.
(Unbecoming Women unpacks the ideological baggage of the B...)
Member Women's Studies Executive Board, since 1987, Women's Center Coordinator Council, 1989-1992. Member Modern Language Association, University Virginia Women Faculty and Professional Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Eric William Lott, August 20, 1988. 1 child, Cory Michael Fraiman-Lott.