Herspace : women, writing, and solitude / Jo Malin, Victoria Boynton, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Malin, Jo, 1942-

Boynton, Victoria.

Series:

Haworth innovations in feminist studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain.

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Personal space in literature.

Solitude in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Great Britain.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 287 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, [2003]

Summary:

Herspace examines: - the stereotyped spinster - solitude as a process and a journey - women's prison literature - cars, empty nests, kitchen counters, and other found spaces for writing - the meaning of a home of one's own - creating beauty in solitary settings

Contents:

Section I Women Theorizing Herspace

Solitude and Writing 19

1. Women Alone: The Spinster's Art / Suzette A. Henke 21

2. With Sure and Uncertain Footing: Negotiating the Terrain of a Solitude in May Sarton's Journals / Lisette Schillig 39

3. Unknown Women: Secular Solitude in the Works of Alice Koller and May Sarton / Christina Pugh 73

4. A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self / Lisa Johnson 95

5. Woolf, Hurston, and the House of Self / Kristina Deffenbacher 105

6. The Domestic Politics of Marguerite Duras / Annabelle Cone 123

Section II Women's Writing Spaces

Solitude and the Creative Process 143

7. Writing Women, Solitary Space, and the Ideology of Domesticity / Victoria Boynton 147

8. Car, Kitchen, Canyon: Mother Writing / Claudia Mon Pere 165

9. Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others / Eleanor Berry 179

Section III Women Writing Herspace

Personal Takes on Home 201

10. What to Make of Missing Children (A Life Slipping into Fiction) / Jan Wellington 205

11. The Little Gray House and Me / Claudia A. Limbert 231

12. The Colors and the Light / Maria Brown 239

13. A Woman's Place / Anne Mamary 245

14. Reframing My Life / Mary Rose 261

15. An &/or Peace Performance / H. Kassia Fleisher, Joe Amato 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0789018195

0789018209

OCLC:

50285049