The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States

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Linda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson
Oxford University Press, 1999 - 596 páginas
Provocative and compulsively readable, lively, engaging, and brilliantly representative, The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States presents short stories, poems, essays, plays, speeches, performance pieces, erotica, diaries, correspondence, and even a few recipes from nearly one hundred of our best women writers.
Reveling in the awareness that the best U.S. women's writing is, quite simply, some of the best in the world, editors Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson have chosen selections spanning four centuries and reflecting the rich variety of American women's lives. The collection embraces the perspectives of age and youth, the traditional and the revolutionary, the public and the private. Here is Judith Sargent Murray's 1790 essay "On the Equality of the Sexes," journalist Martha Gellhorn's "Last Words on Vietnam, 1987," and Mary Gordon's homage to the ghosts of Ellis Island, "More Than Just a Shrine"; powerful short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Edith Wharton, Cynthia Ozick, and Toni Morrison; letters from Abigail Adams, Sarah Moore Grimke[accent], Emma Goldman, and Georgia O'Keeffe; Alice B. Toklas's recipe "Bass for Picasso," and erotic offerings from Anais Nin and Rita Mae Brown. The moving autobiography of Zitkala- Sa[accent], whose mother was a Sioux, tells us more about "otherness" than any sociological treatise, while Janice Mirikitani's and Nellie Wong's poems about being young Asian-American women, like Alice Walker's meditation on the beauty of growing old, speak to all readers.
A thought-provoking introduction and descriptive headnotes explore the history of women's writing in ways that help the reader to understand the American women who have used language to change their worlds and to remember the past, and as a means of etching their deepest, fondest dreams. A joy to read, The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States is filled with eye-opening and unexpected selections. It is the perfect book for anyone fascinated by women's writing and women's lives.

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Short Fiction
7
THREE
11
Alice Ruth Moore DunbarNelson TONYS WIFE
21
Mary Wilkins Freeman THE REVOLT OF MOTHER
27
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman THE YELLOW
41
Marietta Holley A MALE MAGDALENE from Samantha
56
Kate Chopin A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS
63
Hisaye Yamamoto SEVENTEEN SYLLABLES
83
Janice Mirikitani SUICIDE NOTE
305
Public Lives
311
THREE From the Personal to the Political
351
Acting Out
379
Alice Childress MEN IN YOUR LIFE
443
the Mirror
452
FAMILY from Jambalaya
474
Private Lives
489

Nella Larsen FREEDOM
95
Tillie Olsen O YES
111
Flannery OConnor A LATE ENCOUNTER WITH
126
Eudora Welty A WORN PATH
135
Cynthia Ozick THE SHAWL
143
Helena María Viramontes MISS CLAIROL
159
Gish Jen IN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY
176
Ursula K Le Guin MAYS LION
190
Poetry
273
Phillis Wheatley ON IMAGINATION
279
Gwendolyn Brooks RELIGION from Ulysses
285
Rural Hours
502
THREE Turning the Century
512
Indian Girl
514
Sui Sin Far from Leaves from the Mental Portfolio
523
FOUR Modern Voices
536
Bodily Pleasures
551
Zarela Martinez LOS DIAS DE LOS MUERTOS from Food From
563
LOVE ME
577
Anaïs Nin MANDRA II from Little Birds
578
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