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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A "deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing" book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, including Dorothy Parker and Joan Didion (Paris Review).
In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy,...
In Sharp, Michelle Dean explores the lives of ten women of vastly different backgrounds and points of view who all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America. These women—Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy,...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c1986
Physical Desc
xi, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen's celebrated study of women's roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women's studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyond This groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays investigates and celebrates Native American traditions, with special focus on the position of the American...
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 518 p., [33] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A "valuable and intriguing" study of the lives and works of literary women who shaped expatriate Paris (NPR).
Focusing on some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century, from Anais Nin to Alice B. Toklas and beyond, this book shines new light on how gender was experienced and expressed during an important moment in modern literary history.
"Shari Benstock...
10) Betrayal and other acts of subversion: feminism, sexual politics, Asian American women's literature
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
212 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leslie Bow is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, where she specializes in Asian American literature, ethnic autobiography, writing by women of color, feminist theory, and theories of race, ethnicity, and pedagogy. She has published widely in journals and in edited volumes.
Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 586 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a narrative of immense scope and fascination--spanning nearly 400 years and brimming with Showalter's characteristic wit and incisive opinions--readers are introduced to more than 250 female writers, both famous and little known.
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