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American Women Writing Fiction : Memory, Identity, Family, Space / Mickey Pearlman, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Space and time in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Fiction--Authorship--Psychological aspects.
- Fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--Bibliography.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors--Bibliography.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, American.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated and diverse society -- racially, culturally, and ethnically interwoven and at the same time fractured and fractious.Ten women writing fiction in America today -- Toni Cade Bambara, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, and Mary Lee Settle -- represent that geographic, ethnic, and racial diversity that is distinctively American. Their differ
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; The Enclosure of Identity in the Earlier Stories; A Bibliography of Writings by Joyce Carol Oates; A Bibliography of Writings about Joyce Carol Oates; The Struggle with Love; A Bibliography of Writings by Mary Gordon; A Bibliography of Writings about Mary Gordon; The Bond between Narrator and Heroine in Democracy; A Bibliography of Writings by Joan Didion; A Bibliography of Writings about Joan Didion; Of Cars, Time, and the River; A Bibliography of Writings by Louise Erdrich
- A Bibliography of Writings about Louise ErdrichThe Uses of Adultery; A Bibliography of Writings by Alison Lurie; A Bibliography of Writings about Alison Lurie; The Power of Memory, Family, and Space; A Bibliography of Writings by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; A Bibliography of Writings about Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; The Dance of Character and Community; A Bibliography of Writings by Toni Cade Bambara; A Bibliography of Writings about Toni Cade Bambara; The Odd Woman and Literary Feminism; A Bibliography of Writings by Gail Godwin; A Bibliography of Writings about Gail Godwin
- Women's Narrative and the Recreation of HistoryA Bibliography of Writings by Jayne Anne Phillips; A Bibliography of Writings about Jayne Anne Phillips; ""Ambiguity of Steel""; A Selected Bibliography of Writings by Mary Lee Settle; A Selected Bibliography of Writings about Mary Lee Settle; Notes on the Writers; Notes on the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813181615
- 0813181615
- 9780813101828
- 0813101824
- 9780813157825
- 081315782X
- OCLC:
- 581594181
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