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Zusatztext "The editors offer a broad range that includes well-known Anglo writers as well as a handful of ethnic writers. It's this kind of balance that makes turning each page a joy. Whether you are discovering Helena Maria Viramontes or rediscovering Edith Wharton, it's a gem you can't put down....The editors have succeeded in bringing cohesion to a rich history of women's writing in the United States."--Copley News Service Informationen zum Autor About the Editors:Linda Wagner-Martin and Cathy N. Davidson are the Editors in Chief of The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; her recent books include Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography and a forthcoming biography of Gertrude Stein. Davidson is Professor of English at Duke University; her many books include The Book of Love: Writers and their Love Letters and Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan. Klappentext "A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today." Zusammenfassung 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, speeces, peformance pieces, erotica, diaries, correspondence, and even a few recipes from nearly one hundred of our best women writers.
