Catherine Romagnolo is an associate professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Lebanon Valley College. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel and Analyzing World Fiction: New Horizons in Narrative Theory and has been anthologized in Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (Nebraska, 2009).
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. No Place for Her Individual Adventure: Motherhood, Marriage, and New Beginnings in Summer2. Waves of Beginnings: The Ebb of Heterosexual Romance in Paint It Today3. Moving in Lofty Spirals: Circularity and Narrative Beginnings in The Bluest Eye4. Circling the History of Slavery: Multilayered Beginnings in Beloved5. Swan Feathers and Coca-Cola: Authenticity and Origins in The Joy Luck Club6. Bordering Yolanda García: Recessive Origins in How the García Girls Lost Their AccentsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex