The Vintage Book of American Women Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Vintage Book of American Women Writers write by Elaine Showalter. This book was released on 2011-01-11. The Vintage Book of American Women Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collection of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. From Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to Margaret Fuller to Harriet Beecher Stowe, readers will encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations. Our famous women writers, including contemporary stars like Annie Proux and Jhumpa Lahiri, are showcased in their full literary context, offering an epic overview of the canon in one monumental, dazzling volume. This landmark anthology features the best work of our best American women, and was inspired and informed by the author's groundbreaking history celebrating women writers, A Jury of Her Peers.
American Women Writing Fiction
American Women Writing Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Women Writing Fiction write by Mickey Pearlman. This book was released on 2021-03-17. American Women Writing Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 differing perspectives on literature and the American experience have produced Erdrich's stolid North Dakota plainswomen; Didion's sun-baked dreamers and screamers; the urban ethnics—Irish, Jewish, and black—of Gordon, Schaeffer, and Bambara; Oates's small-town, often violent, neurotics; Lurie's intellectual sophisticates; and the southern survivors and victims, male and female, of Phillips, Settle, and Godwin. The ten original essays in this collection focus on the traditional themes of identity, memory, family, and enclosure that pervade the fiction of these writers. The fictional women who emerge here, as these critics show, are often caught in the interwoven strands of memory, perceive literal and emotional space as entrapping, find identity elusive and frustrating, and experience the interweaving of silence, solitude, and family in complex patterns. Each essay in this collection is followed by bibliographies of works by and about the writer in question that will be invaluable resources for scholars and general readers alike. Here is a readable critical discussion of ten important contemporary novelists who have broadened the pages of American literature to reflect more clearly the people we are.
Great Short Stories by American Women
Great Short Stories by American Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Short Stories by American Women write by Candace Ward. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Great Short Stories by American Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States write by Linda Wagner-Martin. This book was released on 1999. The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers write by Wendy Martin. This book was released on 2016-04-28. The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics, such as: the transatlantic and transnational origins of American women's literary traditions the colonial period and the Puritans the early national period and the rhetoric of independence the nineteenth century and the Civil War the twentieth century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights era trends in twenty-first century American women's writing feminism, gender and sexuality, regionalism, domesticity, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. The volume examines the ways in which women writers from diverse racial, social, and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, giving particular attention to the ways writers worked inside, outside, and around the strictures of their cultural and historical moments to create space for women’s voices and experiences as a vital part of American life. Addressing key contemporary and theoretical debates, this comprehensive overview presents a highly readable narrative of the development of literature by American women and offers a crucial range of perspectives on American literary history.
