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Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers
Contributor(s): Reesman, Jeanne Campbell (Editor), Aarons, Victoria (Contribution by), Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0820337986     ISBN-13: 9780820337982
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $35.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
Dewey: 810.992
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume represents the fruits of
the dramatic and celebrated growth of the study of American women writers today. From established figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Katherine Ann Porter to emerging voices including early American novelist Tabitha Tenney; the first African American novelist, Harriet E. Wilson; modern dramatist Sophie Treadwell; and contemporaries such as Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, and June Jordan, the essays present fresh approaches and furnish a wealth of illustrations for the multiple selves created and addressed in women's writing. These selves intersect and connect to embody a multiethnic rhetoric of the "self" that is uniquely feminine and uniquely American. Calling attention to their "American feminist rhetoric," Jeanne Campbell Reesman identifies many connections among different feminist, poststructuralist, narratological, and comparativist strategies. The voices of Speaking the Other Self well represent the inner and outer, speaking and hearing, center and frame in women's writing in America, their intersections constructing an ongoing conversation, a borderland of new possibilities--a borderland with no borders, no barriers to thought and response and change, no end of possible voices and selves.

Contributor Bio(s): Reesman, Jeanne Campbell: - JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner and Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction. Her other books include Trickster Lives and Speaking the Other Self (both Georgia).Campbell, Donna M.: - DONNA M. CAMPBELL is a professor of English at Washington State University.Harris, Sharon M.: - SHARON M. HARRIS is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut. The author or editor of numerous books, she is founder of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught: - JACQUELINE VAUGHT BROGAN is a professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Stevens and Simile and Part of the Climate, as well as a collection of her own poetry, Damage.Harris, Trudier: - TRUDIER HARRIS is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is coeditor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and author of The Power of the Porch (Georgia) and Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison.