The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United StatesLinda Wagner-Martin, Cathy N. Davidson Oxford University Press, 1995 - 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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... Eyes Were Watching God ) has become a mainstay in women's studies and American lit- erature courses . The positive tone of much of her writing , her ability to draw women characters who are both believable and inspiring , and her clear ...
... Eyes Were Watching God ) has become a mainstay in women's studies and American lit- erature courses . The positive tone of much of her writing , her ability to draw women characters who are both believable and inspiring , and her clear ...
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... eyes , our mouths . Because he would whimper Mommy ? —in that way that tore my heart . Because last Monday the washing machine broke down , I heard a loud thumping that scared me , the dirty soapy water would not drain out . Because in ...
... eyes , our mouths . Because he would whimper Mommy ? —in that way that tore my heart . Because last Monday the washing machine broke down , I heard a loud thumping that scared me , the dirty soapy water would not drain out . Because in ...
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... eyes were fastened upon me . He took long strides around the stove , passing behind the woman's chair . I threw down my spools , and ran to my mother . He did not fear her , but followed closely after me . Then I ran round and round the ...
... eyes were fastened upon me . He took long strides around the stove , passing behind the woman's chair . I threw down my spools , and ran to my mother . He did not fear her , but followed closely after me . Then I ran round and round the ...
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