Month: March 2017

By Robin Anne Reid

Works of technology fiction and myth more and more discover gender matters, characteristic ladies as significant characters, and are written by way of girls writers. This booklet examines women's contributions to technological know-how fiction and fable throughout a variety of media and genres, reminiscent of fiction, nonfiction, movie, tv, paintings, comics, photo novels, and track. the 1st quantity bargains survey essays on significant issues, comparable to sexual identities, fandom, women's writing teams, and feminist spirituality; the second one offers alphabetically prepared entries on extra particular matters, comparable to Hindu mythology, Toni Morrison, magical realism, and Margaret Atwood. Entries are written by way of specialist individuals and cite works for extra interpreting, and the set closes with a specific, normal bibliography.

Students and basic readers love technological know-how fiction and delusion. And technological know-how fiction and myth works more and more discover gender concerns, function girls as valuable characters, and are written by means of ladies writers. Older works exhibit attitudes towards girls in instances prior, whereas newer works grapple with modern social matters. This booklet is helping scholars use technology fiction and delusion to appreciate the contributions of ladies writers, the illustration of girls within the media, and the reports of girls in society.

By A. Heilmann

The recent girl was once the emblem of the moving different types of gender and sexuality and epitomised the spirit of the fin de siècle . This informative monograph bargains an interdisciplinary method of the starting to be box of recent lady reviews through exploring the connection among first-wave feminist literature, the nineteenth-century women's circulate and feminine customer tradition. The publication expertly locations the controversy approximately femininity, feminism and fiction in its cultural and socio-historical context, interpreting New lady fiction as a style whose rising theoretical discourse prefigured innovations significant to second-wave feminist thought.

By Lorraine Hansberry

Listed below are Lorraine Hansberry's final 3 plays--Les Blancs, The consuming Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her fulfillment. contains a new preface by way of Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised creation by means of Margaret B. Wilkerson.

By Roberta S. Trites

An exam of feminist subject matters in kid's and younger adult's literature covers such issues as friendship, marriage, and group.

By Leslie Carroll

40 is extraordinary for Tessa Craig. Heck, she has it all—a glamorous task as a political speechwriter, a new york duplex, and a good-looking boyfriend, Congressman David Weyburn, whose integrity, aura, and beauty have made him his party's emerging celebrity. yet her fabulosity fizzles while scandal moves, and Tessa watches helplessly as her doubtless satisfied love existence and profitable profession cave in like a home of playing cards. Tessa realizes it is time to embark on a brand new trip, one she must have made decades in the past. it is a journey that takes her to the Emerald Isle and again, major her center in unimagined instructions. She makes new neighbors, all of sudden adopts a brand new family members (or do they undertake her?), and discovers unanticipated love with silver-tongued, green-eyed, aspiring pub proprietor, Jamie Doyle. And, most significantly, Tessa makes that uphill climb over the rainbow to discover the last word pot of gold: Herself.

By Ayana I. Karanja

Filtered via black womanist views, Zora Neale Hurston: The Breath of Her Voice breaks new floor via innovation and mind's eye, by means of fusing interpretive tools in ethnographic writing and literary reviews. Intrinsically referencing modern epistemological concerns in ethnographic writing and literary canonicity, Dr. Karanja illuminates fragments of Hurston's existence via an exploration of her novels and folklore collections. In doing so, she bridges disciplines to build a postmodern textual content that «speaks» at once and formidably to oral literature and to the writer's and reader's collaboration within the creation of textual meanings.

By Elizabeth A. Beaulieu

Women have had a fancy adventure in African American tradition. the 1st paintings of its type, this encyclopedia techniques African American literature from a Women's stories standpoint. whereas Yolanda Williams Page's Encyclopedia of African American ladies Writers presents biographical entries on greater than a hundred and fifty literary figures, this publication is far broader in scope. integrated are a number of hundred alphabetically prepared entries on African American ladies writers, in addition to on male writers who've taken care of ladies of their works. Entries on genres, sessions, topics, characters, ancient occasions, texts, areas, and different subject matters are integrated in addition. every one access is written through a professional contributor and relates its topic to the final event of ladies in African American literature. Entries cite works for additional analyzing, and the encyclopedia closes with a particular, basic bibliography.

African American tradition is vastly different, and the adventure of girls in African American society is mainly complicated. ladies have been one of the first African American writers, and works through black ladies writers are renowned between scholars and common readers alike. even as, African American ladies were oppressed, and texts by means of black male authors signify girls in numerous methods. the 1st of its sort, this encyclopedia ways African American literature from a Women's reports standpoint, and therefore considerably illuminates the African American cultural event via literary works.

Included are a number of hundred alphabetically prepared entries, written via a variety of specialist members. as well as overlaying female and male African American authors, the encyclopedia additionally discusses subject matters, significant works and characters, genres, classes, old occasions, locations, and different topics.

Included are entries on such authors as:

; Maya Angelou

; James Baldwin

; Frederick Douglass

; Nikki Giovanni

; June Jordan

; Claude McKay

; Ishmael Reed

; Sojourner Truth

; Phillis Wheatley

; and lots of others.

In addition, the numerous works mentioned include:

; Beloved

; Blanche at the Lam

; Iknow Why the Caged chicken Sings

; The males of Brewster Place

; Quicksand

; The Street

; Waiting to Exhale

; and plenty of more.

The many topical entries cover:

; Black Feminism

; Black Nationalism

; Conjuring

; kid's and younger grownup Literature

; Detective Fiction

; Epistolary Novel

; Motherhood

; Sexuality

; Spirituality

; Stereotypes

; and plenty of others.

Entries relate their subject matters to the adventure of African American girls and cite works for extra reading.

Features and Benefits:

; comprises hundreds of thousands of alphabetically prepared entries.

; attracts at the paintings of various specialist contributors.

; encompasses a chosen, basic bibliography.

; deals a number discovering aids, resembling a listing of entries, a consultant to comparable subject matters, and an in depth index.

; helps the literature curriculum by way of aiding scholars research significant writers and works.

; helps the social reviews curriculum by means of supporting scholars use literature to appreciate the adventure of African American women.

; Covers the entire chronological variety of African American literature.

; Fosters a appreciate for cultural diversity.

; Develops examine talents by way of directing scholars to extra assets of information.

; Builds bridges among African American background, literature, and Women's Studies.

By Kameron Hurley

By M. Garrett

Numerous thousand letters to and from Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning have survived, including different details at the composition and context of works from Barrett's 'Lines on advantage' written on the age of 8 in 1814 to Browning's Asolando (1889). The Chronology seeks to steer readers via this mass of fabric in 3 major sections: early life, contrasting early backgrounds and careers, and starting to be curiosity in each one other's paintings to 1845; courtship, marriage, Italy, and paintings together with Aurora Leigh and ladies and men (1845-61); Browning's later lifetime of relentless socializing and prolific writing from his go back to London to his dying in Venice in 1889. The booklet offers not just certain relationship yet a lot topic on such subject matters because the Brownings' wide examining in English, French and classical literature, their many friendships, and their occasionally conflicting political opinions.

By June Szirotny

The query of even if George Eliot was once what may now be known as a feminist is a contentious one. This booklet argues, via a detailed research of her fiction, proficient via exam of her life's tale and by way of a comparability of her perspectives to these of latest feminists, that George Eliot used to be extra radical and extra feminist than more often than not idea.