| Description |
xxvi, 391 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1042 |
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Gender and genre in literature ; vol. 8 |
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Gender & genre in literature ; v. 8.
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1042.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo -- Homeric resonances : longing and belonging in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal dreams / Roberta Rubenstein -- Writing home : the Bible and Gloria Naylor's Bailey's cafe / Amy Benson Brown -- Beyond silence / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- My self, my body, my world : homemaking in the fiction of Brigitte Kronauer / Jutta Ittner -- Home-breaking and making in the novels of Elizabeth Jolley / John O'Brien -- Ironing their clothes / Julia Alvarez |
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-- The dream detectives / Clarissa Pinkola Estés -- Penetrating privacy : confessional poetry and the surveillance society / Deborah Nelson -- Remembering China in Wild swans and Life and death in Shanghai / Cynthia F. Wong -- Keeping house : a meditation on the possibilities of the essay / Rebecca Blevins Faery -- Unfamiliar ties : lesbian constructions of home and family in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges are not the only fruit and Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories / |
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Ellen Brinks and Lee Talley -- Harmony and resistance in L'Amour, la fantasia's Algerian women's communities / Martine Gutot-Bender -- Spices ; To whom it may concern / Ama Ata Aidoo -- |
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Relocating home and identity in Zami : a new spelling of my name / Jennifer Gillan -- Wild lessons : native ecological wisdom in Ruby Slipperjcak's fiction / Sylvia Bowerbank and Delores Nawagesic Wawia -- Nature, spirituality, and homemaking in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek / Carolyn M. Jones -- Guest to New York City ; Man on the terrace / Cherly Fish -- Jewish women in the diaspora / Gabriele Kreis, translation and introduction by Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey -- |
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Home / Velina Hasu Houston -- Untitled letter / Charlotte DeClue (Kawashinsay) -- Yes, something did happen in my childhood / Margaret Randall -- Imagined communities in the novels of Michelle Cliff -- Refusing the poisoned chalice : the sexual politics of Rita Ann Higgins and Paula Meehan / Karen Steele -- Zehra Çirak : foreign wings on familiar shoulders / Marilya Veteto-Conrad -- Helena María Viramontes' homing devices in Under the feet of Jesus / Cecelia Lawless -- |
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How we did it, from Scenes from a childhood / Alison Hawthorne Deming. |
| Subject |
Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women authors -- Biography.
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Home economics.
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Politics and literature.
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| Indexed Term |
English literature Special subjects Women |
| Added Author |
Wiley, Catherine.
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Barnes, Fiona R.
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| ISBN |
0815320558 alkaline paper |
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