Waveform : twenty-first-century essays by women / edited by Marcia Aldrich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aldrich, Marcia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--Women authors.

American essays.

American essays--21st century.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xiv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Wave form

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre's boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ranging from the traditional to the experimental. Waveform champions the diversity of women's approaches to the structure of the essay - today a site of invention and innovation, with experiments in collage, fragments, segmentation, braids, triptychs, and diptychs. Focused on these explorations of form, Waveform is not wed to a fixed theme or even to women's experiences per se. It is not driven by subject matter but highlights the writers' interaction with all manner of subject and circumstance through style, voice, tone, and structure. This anthology presents some of the women who are shaping the essay today, mapping an ever-changing landscape. It is designed to place essays recently written by women such as Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Margo Jefferson, Jaquira Diaz, and Eula Biss into the hands of those who have been waiting patiently for something they could equally claim as their own"--Publisher.

Contents:

Tiny beautiful things / Cheryl Strayed

Girl hood: on (not) finding yourself in books / Jaquira Díaz

When I was white / Sarah Valentine

This is how I spell my body / Adriana Paramo

On puddling / Jericho Parms

birdbreath, twin, synonym / Dana Tommasino

Breaking and entering / Michele Morano

Cat stories . Kyoko Mori

Notes toward a partial definition of home / Chelsea Biondolillo

Dumb show / Neela Vaswani

Grand unified theory of female pain / Leslie Jamison

Gun shy / Jocelyn Bartkevicius

White boys / Bich Minh Nguyen

Grip / Joy Castro

Portrait of a family, crooked and straight / Wendy Rawlings

TV time in Negroland / Margo Jefferson

They didn't come here cowboys / Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

We regret to inform you / Brenda Miller

Here / Kristen Radtke

THIHACOIAAGT / Amy Wright

The girl, the cop, and I / Laurie Lynn Drummond

Readings / Patricia Foster

There are distances between us / Roxane Gay

A flexible wolf / Nicole Walker

Difference maker / Meghan Daum

The truth / Barrie Jean Borich

Transgender day of remembrance: a found essay / Torrey Peters

Light from faraway places / Sonja Livingston

Good-bye to all that / Eula Biss

The art of being born / Marcia Aldrich.

ISBN:

9780820350219

0820350214

OCLC:

952567110