The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States
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The Oxford book of women's writing in the United States
Oxford University Press, c1995
- : cloth
- : paper
Available at 10 libraries
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: cloth ISBN 9780195087062
Description
The Oxford Book of Women's Writing in the United States is a rich and engaging collection of women's writing, spanning the entire chronology of American literary history from Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to Anne Sexton, Alice Walker, and Ana Castillo. It encompasses a full range of genres - both public and private forms - including short stories, novellas, poetry, essays, letters, diaries, performance pieces, and ceremonial forms. The selections reflect the variety of women's lives in America, encompassing rural and urban perspectives, a range of cultural and social settings, young and old, regional voices, and the like. Organized into six sections - Short Story (including the novella); Poetry; Public Lives; Acting Out; Private Lives; and Bodily Pleasures - this book is the ideal `companion' work to The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States (OUP, 1995).
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: paper ISBN 9780195132458
Description
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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