Word On Being a [Woman] Writer

Name: Word On Being a [Woman] Writer
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ISBN: 9781558614673

ISBN-10: 1558614672

ISBN-13: 9781558614673

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jocelyn Burrell, Sandra Gilbert

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In this brilliant and moving collection, some of the world's most famous literary voices meditate on what it means to be a woman writer. Despite their increased visibility, women who write are still thought of as different -- sometimes celebrated, sometimes viewed with suspicion and condescension. Here, writers from all over the world explore, defy and embrace 'the woman writer': an indispensable muse to some, a troublesome burden to others; a defiant, even life-threatening identity to others still. Taking nothing as given, these writers explore the varied pleasures and dangers of writing as woman in the contemporary world. The choice to write is rarely considered free of consequences. For…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Foreword : from margin to center



Editor's note


The structured silences of women : culture, censorship, and voice in a globalised market



Women who write too much



Lyric in a time of violence



Baghdad : these cities dying in our arms



On the line and the black pen



Writing near the bone



Word warrior



The world of poetry



Finding the groove



Only daughter



Why write?



The girl behind the smile



The semiotics of sex



Writing in the language of the other



Beyond survival : a politics/poetics of Puerto Rican consciousness



Writing with the body



On writing poetry



Stealing apples



The woman who slept with one eye open



The difficult miracle of black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley



The interval



Women like us



Letter to a young woman poet



Acknowledgments