Diverse voices : essays on twentieth-century women writers in English

Author(s)

• Jump, Harriet Devine
• Briggs, Julia

Bibliographic Information

Diverse voices : essays on twentieth-century women writers in English

edited by Harriet Devine Jump ; with a foreword by Julia Briggs

Harbester Wheatsheaf , St. Martin's Press, c1991

• : H.W. : hbk
• : H.W. : pbk
• : Martin

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume considers the relationship between feminism and women's writing by investigating the important aspects of women's creativity, language and narrative in the writing of women from different cultures and nations. There are re-assessments of classic American authors Willa Cather, H.D. and Gertrude Stein, as well as new treatments of Eudora Welty and of Black American women poets including Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Audre Lorde. Africa is represented in a discussion of Nigerian women writers and Australia by a new approach to the works of Christina Stead. There is also an essay re-assessing Irish women poets, and an overview of the Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood.

Table of Contents

• Gertrude Stein - "some could be different ones", Clare Brant
• Willa Cather - the woman as artist, Julia Briggs
• H.D.'s "Autrebiography", Diane Chisholm
• Margaret Atwood - taking the capital W of woman, Harriet Devine Jump
• "and I still rise" - five contemporary black women poets from North America, Helen Kidd
• Christina Stead - writing expatriation, Kate Liley
• the rapist bridegroom - sexual violence in the fiction of Eudora Welty, Diane Roberts
• are we in the company of feminists? - a preface for Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo, Caroline Rooney
• contemporary Irish women poets - the privatization of myth, Clair Wills.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA13443201
• ISBN:
  • 074500752X
  • 0745007538
  • 0312061897
• LCCN: 91002001
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; London,New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxiii, 278 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS228.W65
  • DC20 : 820.9/9287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism