Speaking the other self : American women writers / edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman.

Contents "Masculinity" in Uncle Tom's cabin / Cynthia Griffin Wolff-- Jouissant politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona : the ground that is "Mother's lap" / Daneen Wardrop -- Class and sexuality in a Mexican landscape : Katherine Anne Porter's marginalia on D.H. Lawrence / Rae M. Carlton Colley -- Mirror, mirror, on the wall : gazing in Edith Wharton's "Looking glass" / Susan Elizabeth Sweeney -- Chronicles of Panchita Villa : a Chicana guerrillera literary critic / Tey Diana Rebolledo -- What women? what canon? : African-American women and the canon / Trudier Harris -- Said but not spoken : Elision and the representation of rape, race, and gender in Harriet E. Wilson's Our nig / Ronna C. Johnson -- "Of one blood" : reimagining American genealogy in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces / Lisa Marcus -- Nationalism and Korean American women's writing : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Shu-mei Shih -- Gender and first-person narration in Willa Cather's fiction / Elsa Nettels -- "Real lives" of Sophie Treadwell : expressionism and the feminist aesthetic in Machinal and For saxophone / Jerry Dickey -- Selves and "other shadows" : Grace Paley's ironic fictions / Victoria Aarons -- From warrior to womanist : the development of June Jordan's poetry / Jacqueline Vaught Brogan -- Lost boundaries : the use of the carnivalesque in Tabitha Tenney's Female quixotism / Sharon M. Harris -- Engendered nature/denatured history : "The yares of Black mountain" by Rebecca Harding Davis / Jean Pfaelzer -- Whitman, Wharton, and the sexuality in Summer / Abby H.P. Werlock -- Rewriting the "Rose and lavender pages" : Ethan Frome and women's local color fiction / Donna M. Campbell -- Fairy tales and opera : the fate of the heroine in the work of Sandra Cisneros / Laura Gutierrez Spencer -- Amy Lowell and cultural borders / Paul Lauter.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96048850
ISBN0820319031 (alk. paper)
ISBN0820319090 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS147 .S69 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold