Worlds in Our Words Contemporary American Women Writers

Name: Worlds in Our Words Contemporary American Women Writers
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ISBN: 9780131821309

ISBN-10: 013182130X

ISBN-13: 9780131821309

Edition: 1st 1997

Authors: Marilyn Kallet, Patricia Clark

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Appropriate for undergraduate courses in Women's Literature, American Literature, Women in American Literature, Contemporary American Literature. Encompassing several genres of literary composition, this thematically arranged, multicultural anthology provides an integrated curriculum of contemporary American women writers from diverse backgrounds whose works have come into prominence in the last several decades.

Book details

List price: $146.65
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English




Finding Words


Everyday Use



Robins's Nest



Lullaby



Tales Told Under the Mango Tree



Poetry is Not a Luxury



A Starfish in Mott



From the Poets in the Kitchen



Waking Women



Untitled, Prologue to Ceremony



Refugee Ship



First Lessons



The Latin Deli



For Alva Benson, And For Those Who Have Learned to Speak



A Litany for Survival



Recognized Futures



Adi os



I Want to Write



Interview


The Art of Not Forgetting




Family Album


Yellow Light



How Far She Went



To Da-duh, In Memoriam



Good Shabbos



Family Album



No Name Womanfrom Woman Warrior



A Walk with My Father



Dear Mama



Tender Offer



Daughters



Touching, Not Touching: My Mother



Each Bird Walking



Germinal, andElk Song



The Race, andBathing the Newborn



Down the Little Cahaba



Bentshen Light



Pic ture Bride



Visiting the Graves



Interview


Imagining a Wider Community




Histories


A Visit from Reverend Tileston



A Gift for Languages



O Yes



The birth of Denver, excerpt from Beloved



The Shawl



Whose America Is It?



History Stops for No One



Preface: The Kaw River Rushes Westward



Gold Watch



Them and us



Bill of Sale



A Note on My Son's Face Toi



Poland: My mother is walking down a roadfromBashert


For My Children



Prisons of Silence



La Migra



Family Tree



I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen



Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea



Shaacute;aacute; Akoacute; Dahjiniacute;teh: Remember the Things They Told Us



Interview


Against a Bondage of Color




Transformations


A Conversation With My Father



Waltzing into Heaven



Born Again



Emma



Hunger



Bubbie, Mommy, Weight Watchers and Me



Junk



Where People Know Me



17C



Weed



Betrayal



Dusk



Red Poppy



The Undertaking



For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Whose Spirit is Here and in the Dappled Stars



Geodes



Hummingbirds



A Tree Telling of Orpheus



Tornados



Lot's Wife



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