Women Writers: Texts and Contexts – serie
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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'
Joyce Carol Oates
Häftad, 1994
439 kr
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Joyce Carol Oates’s prize-winning story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” takes up troubling subjects that continue to occupy her in her fiction: the romantic longings and limited options of adolescent women; the tensions between mothers and daughters; the sexual victimization of women; …
"a Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Flannery O'Connor
Häftad, 1993
439 kr
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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is Flannery O'Connor's most famous and most discussed story. O'Connor herself singled it out by making it the title piece of her first collection and the story she most often chose for readings or talks to students. It is an unforgettable tale, both riveting and comic, …
"Flowering Judas"
Katherine Anne Porter
Häftad, 1993
466 kr
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Katherine Anne Porter often spoke of her story "Flowering Judas" as the tale she liked best of all her stories because it came the nearest to what she meant it to be. It is the story of Laura, an idealistic woman, who travels to Mexico from Arizona at the age of twenty-two to assist the Obreg-n …
'Yellow Woman'
Leslie Marmon Silko
Häftad, 1993
372 kr
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In the past twenty-five years many Native American writers have retold the traditional stories of powerful mythological women: Corn Woman, Changing Woman, Serpent Woman, and Thought Woman, who with her sisters created all life by thinking it into being. Within and in response to these evolving …
'Seventeen Syllables'
Hisaye Yamamoto
Häftad, 1994
372 kr
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Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, "Seventeen Syllables" is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation …
Everyday Use
Alice Walker
Av Alice Walker, Barbara T. Christian
Häftad, 1994
466 kr
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Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African …
"Tell Me a Riddle"
Tillie Olsen
Av Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
Häftad, 1995
405 kr
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“Tell Me a Riddle” renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a …
"Sweat"
Written by Zora Neale Hurston
Av Zora Neale Hurston, Cheryl A. Wall
Häftad, 1997
439 kr
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Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, …
