Diverse voices : essays on twentieth-century women writers in English
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Diverse voices : essays on twentieth-century women writers in English
Harbester Wheatsheaf , St. Martin's Press, c1991
- : H.W. : hbk
- : H.W. : pbk
- : Martin
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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.
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