Download or read book Writing Women s Communities written by Cynthia G. Franklin and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1980s, a number of popular and influential anthologies organized around themes of shared identity—Nice Jewish Girls, This Bridge Called My Back, Home Girls, and others—have brought together women’s fiction and poetry with journal entries, personal narratives, and transcribed conversations. These groundbreaking multi-genre anthologies, Cynthia G. Franklin demonstrates, have played a crucial role in shaping current literary studies, in defining cultural and political movements, and in building connections between academic and other communities. Exploring intersections and alliances across the often competing categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Writing Women’s Communities contributes to current public debates about multiculturalism, feminism, identity politics, the academy as a site of political activism, and the relationship between literature and politics.
Download or read book Women s Life Writing and Imagined Communities written by Cynthia Anne Huff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising the great legacy of women's life writings, this book draws on a wealth of sources to critically examine the impact of these writings on our communities.
Download or read book Writing the Self Creating Community written by Elisabeth Krimmer and published by Women and Gender in German Stu. This book was released on 2020 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Women s Writing in the United States written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
Download or read book Women Writing on Family written by Carol Smallwood and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidance and insight for women who write about family. Award-winning women writers from all walks of life share their experiences in planning, composing, editing, publishing, teaching, and promoting work in a variety of writing genres. Readers will learn to tackle sensitive family issues and avoid pitfalls in memoir writing, poetry, fiction, and others. Filled with tips, exercises, and anecdotes, this anthology is appropriate for both well-seasoned writers and those just beginning.
Download or read book British Women Poets and the Romantic Writing Community written by Stephen C. Behrendt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the work of Romantic-era British women poets through the lenses of public radicalism, war, and poetic form. This compelling study recovers the lost lives and poems of British women poets of the Romantic era. Stephen C. Behrendt reveals the range and diversity of their writings, offering new perspectives on the work of dozens of women whose poetry has long been ignored or marginalized in traditional literary history. British Romanticism was once thought of as a cultural movement defined by a small group of male poets. This book grants women poets their proper place in the literary tradition of the time. In an approach ripe for classroom teaching, Behrendt first reviews the subject thematically, exploring the ways in which the poems addressed both public concerns and private experiences. He next examines the use of particular genres, including the sonnet and various other long and short forms. In the concluding chapters, Behrendt explores the impact of national identity, providing the first extensive study of Romantic-era poetry by women from Scotland and Ireland. In recovering the lives and work of these women, Behrendt reveals their active participation within the rich cultural community of writers and readers throughout the British Isles. This study will be a key resource for scholars, teachers, and students in British literary studies, women’s studies, and cultural history.
Download or read book Master Class written by Christina Dalcher and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it's off to a federal boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising students, and parents are happy.Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's elite schools. When her nine-year-old daughter bombs a monthly test and her Q score drops to a disastrously low level, she is immediately forced to leave her top school for a federal institution hundreds of miles away. As a teacher, Elena thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose child is now gone, Elena's perspective is changed forever. She just wants her daughter back.And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen. (4e de couverture)
Download or read book How to Suppress Women s Writing written by Joanna Russ and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1983-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions
Download or read book Sister Nations written by Heid Ellen Erdrich and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry. Contributors include Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, and Diane Glancy.
Download or read book Communities of Women written by Nina Auerbach and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie over de emancipatie van de vrouw gezien vanuit vrouwengemeenschappen, zoals dit in de Angelsaksische letterkunde tot uiting komt
Download or read book The Promise of Patriarchy written by Ula Yvette Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Download or read book Migrant Masculinities in Women s Writing written by Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of masculinities in contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Exploring works by Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen (China) and Kim Thúy (Vietnam), this study charts the extent to which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a different position in the new society.
Download or read book Women s Life Writing and Imagined Communities written by Cynthia Huff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fifteen essays with a critical introduction explores how women's life-writing reflects and shapes a community's values - whether that community is global, national, or local. The authors examine women's autobiographical texts from a variety of perspectives, including feminism, cultural studies, postmodernism, and New Historicism. The material analysed includes novels, memoirs, autobiographies, web pages, online zines, letters, religious records, anthologies, and deportation narratives. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Prose Studies. Deborah Lee Ames, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut, USA Gay Breyley, University of Wollongong, Australia Marta Yuzcaya Echano
Download or read book Notable American Women Writers written by Salem Press and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new title brings together overviews and in-depth analysis of hundreds of American women writers, from Colonial America to present day. This work concentrates on women writers of literature, including novels, short stories, poetry, and drama. Essays include a personal biography and a summary of works, with valuable top matter details and further reading sections. The volumes include reviews and excerpts of the writer's most acclaimed works to give the researcher a unique, comprehensive perspective
Download or read book Narratives of Community written by Roxanne Harde and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Community draws together essays that examine short story sequences by women through the lenses of Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s theoretical essay, â oeNarrative of Community.â Reading texts from countries around the world, the collectionâ (TM)s twenty-two contributors expand scholarship on the genre as they employ diverse theoretical models to consider how female identity is negotiated in community or the roles of women in domestic, social and literary community. Grouped into four sections based on these examinations, the essays demonstrate how Zagarellâ (TM)s theory can provide a point of reference for multiple approaches to womenâ (TM)s writing as they read the semiotic systems of community. While â oenarrative of communityâ provides an organizing principle behind this collection, these essays offer critical approaches grounded in a wide variety of disciplines. Zagarell contributes the collectionâ (TM)s concluding essay, in which she provides a series of reflections on literary and cultural representations of community, on generic categorizations of community, and on regionalism and narrative of community as she returns to theoretical ground she first broke almost twenty years ago. Overall, these essays bring their contributors and readers into a community engaged with a narrative genre that inspires and affords a rich and growing tradition of scholarship. With Narratives of Community, editor Roxanne Harde offers a wealth of critical essays on a wide variety of women's linked series of short stories, essays that can be seen overall to explore the genre as a kind of meeting house of fictional form and meaning for an inclusive sororal community. The book itself joins a growing critical community of monographs and essay collections that have been critically documenting the rise of the modern genre of the story cycle to a place second only to the novel. But more than simply joining this critical venture, Narratives of Community makes a major contribution to studies in the short story, feminist theory, women's studies, and genre theory. Its introduction and essays should prove of enduring interest to scholars and critics in these fields, as well as continue highly useful in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. â " Gerald Lynch, Professor of English, University of Ottawa The introduction, by Prof. Harde, and the 20 essays in the book dialogue with Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s proposed paradigm â oenarratives of communityâ , which other scholars have called â oeshort story cyclesâ or â oestory sequencesâ . Zagarellâ (TM)s proposal organically blends a generic model with a thematic concern to explain how women writing community often turn to a particular narrative style that itself supports the literary creation of that community. Harde and the volume contributors appropriate this brilliant and engaging proposal in the context of other crucial discussions of the genreâ "notably Forest Ingramâ (TM)s germinal study, J. Gerald Kennedyâ (TM)s work, and those by Robert Luscher, Maggie Dunn and Anne Morris, James Nagel, Gerald Lynch and (Iâ (TM)m honored to note), my own study on Asian American short story cyclesâ "to expand the range of the critical discussion on the form. The quality and diversity of the essays remind us that there is still much work that can be done in the area of genre studies. The volume emphasizes an important caveat to one vital misconception: that although writers like James Joyce or Sherwood Anderson are thought to be the precursors or, even, â oeinventorsâ of the form, womenâ (TM)s sequences, by Sara Orne Jewett and Elizabeth Gaskell, among others, actually predate the work of the male writers. This fact suggests that the development of the form as a genre that attends to specific perspectives or creative formulations of and by women needs to be considered in depth. The temporal scope of the volume is therefore a vital contribution to scholarship on the form, as is the diversity of the writers analyzed. Indeed, the examination of narratives by writers from different countries and that focus on characters from different time periods, racial, religious, or ethnic communities, and social class impels a multilayered reading of the texts that inevitably promotes a nuanced understanding of the project of each of the writers, a project that connects issues of individuality and community in varied and often surprising ways. The essays thus critically explore the notion of community in its myriad associations with the individual and as a crucial site not only for womenâ (TM)s action upon the world but also for her creative endeavors. The essays in the volume revisit familiar textsâ "Naylorâ (TM)s The Women of Brewster Place, Cisnerosâ (TM)s The House on Mango Street, Kingstonâ (TM)s The Woman Warrior, Weltyâ (TM)s The Golden Apples, Munroâ (TM)s The Lives of Girls and Women, among othersâ "but offer new perspectives on the way form interacts with issues of womenâ (TM)s communities and women creating community in these works. Significantly, it also offers readings on texts that have not been analyzed in detail from this perspectiveâ "Gaskellâ (TM)s Cranford or Woolfâ (TM)s A Haunted House, for exampleâ "thus contributing to a continuing conversation about the ways women write. The juxtaposition of the familiar and the new expand the paradigms of current criticism not only on the story cycle but also on womenâ (TM)s writing in general. â "Rocio Davis, Professor of Literature, University of Navarre Roxanne Hardeâ (TM)s forthcoming volume, Narratives of Community: Womenâ (TM)s Short Story Sequences, provides an abundant collection of varied responses to Sandra Zagarellâ (TM)s longstanding call for further in-depth exploration of the genre that Zagarell christened â oethe narrative of communityâ in her 1988 essay linking non-novelistic narrative form with representations of female experience. As Harde observes, such narratives of community overlap significantly with the growing canon of unified but discontinuous collections of autonomous stories that critics have variously labeled as the short story cycle/ sequence/ composite . . . The essays in her collection examine a rich variety of such works by women, extending the scholarship in this area. . . Hardeâ (TM)s ample collection of essays presents a concerted and diverse exploration of the implications of the short story sequence form as a representation of womenâ (TM)s lives as part of and in conflict with membership in a community. . . . Overall, Hardeâ (TM)s volume is a welcome addition to current scholarship on the short story sequence, bringing in a variety of new voices and perspectives to the community of scholars who have engaged in the exploration of this paradoxical, evolving, and increasingly popular genre. â " Dr. Luscher
Download or read book Women who Write written by Stefan Bollmann and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the literary contribution of various of women authors throughout the ages.
Download or read book Communities of Women written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
