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List of contents
General Editors' Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: 1. YVONNE YARBRO-BEJARANO, Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera: Cultural Studies, `Difference', and the Non-Unitary Subject. 2. MARY O'CONNOR, Subject, Voice, and Women in Some Contemporary Black American Women's Writing 3. MALINI JOHAR SCHUELLER, Questioning Race and Gender Definitions: Dialogic Subversions in the Woman Warrior. 4. THOMAS FOSTER, History, Critical Theory, and Women's Social Practices: `Women's Time' and Housekeeping. 5. NORMA ALARCON, Making Familia from Scratch: Split Subjectives in the Work of Helena Maria Viramontes and Cherrie Moraga. 6. SIDNER LARSON, Native American Aesthetics: An Attitude of Relationship. 7. TONI FLORES, Claiming and Making Ethnicity, Gender, and the Common Sense in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. 8. DONNA PERRY, Initiation in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John. 9. SUSAN KOSHY, The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Diaspora. 10. REBECCA FERGUSON, History, Memory and Language in Toni Morrison's Beloved. 11. NANCY J. PETERSON, History, Postmodernism, and Louise Erdrich's Tracks. 12. ROSE KAMEL, Literary Foremothers and Writers' Silences: Tillie Olsen's Autobiographical Fiction. 13. VICTORIA AARONS, A Perfect Marginality: Public and Private Telling in the Stories of Grace Paley. Selected Bibliography. Notes on Authors. Index
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Lois Parkinson Zamora
Summary
This collection brings together critical writing which examines questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers: among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos.
