Narratives of community : women's short story sequences /: women's short story sequences. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roxanne Harde.
• Other Names: Harde, Roxanne
• Contents: Introduction / Roxanne Harde -- Weaving stories of self and community through Vignettes in Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street / Stella Bolaki -- Community and class in Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House / Pam Chamberlain -- Dissolving borders: towards a community of memory in the fiction of Jayne Anne Phillips / Stéphanie Durrans -- The body indivisible: Shelley Jackson and the feminine figure / Jessica Lingel -- Something she had always heard of: storytelling, sexuality, and community in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples / Sarah L. Peters -- The food, which she was preparing for lunch, often burnt in the little pot: the fragmented domesticities of Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot / Emily Smith -- Defamiliarizing the family: Mary Caponegro's The Complexities of Intimacy / Pedro Ponce -- Creating community: motherhood and the search for identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine / Michelle Pacht -- Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place: evolution of a genre / Laura Nicosia -- The structures or ruins of life: gothic dislocation and woman-made community in Grace King's Balcony Stories / Kate Falvey -- Grace King's Balcony Stories as a narrative of community / Heidi M. Hanrahan -- Más tamales, anybody?: Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls and the Chicana narrative of community / Neil Browne and Michelle Harvey -- Elegant Economy: narratives of community in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford / Kristin Berkey-Abbott -- Maggots in the Rice: women as a sex-class in The Woman Warrior / Sarah Gardam -- Maturing communities and dangerous crones / Kim Kirkpatrick -- Woman's claim to literature and the imaginary in Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House / Anne McConnell -- The girls' guide to creating community: analyzing reading communities in chick lit / Caroline J. Smith -- Transatlantic communities: the Joycean influence in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women / Ellen McWilliams -- A boys' town: Grace Sartwell Mason's Licky and His Gang / Diane Wellins Moul -- Sarah Orne Jewett and the community of American authors / Frances M. Zauhar -- Reflections: narrative, community, narrative of community / Sandra Zagarell -- Narrative of community: the identification of a genre / Sandra Zagarell.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 493 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.01099287; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Short stories, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Short stories, English -- History and criticism; English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Short stories -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Communities in literature; Women -- Identity; Gender identity in literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; American fiction -- Women authors; Communities in literature; English fiction -- Women authors; Gender identity in literature; Short stories, American; Short stories, English; Short stories -- Women authors; Women -- Identity; Kurzgeschichte; Schriftstellerin; Zyklus (Kunstwerk); Gender studies: women; Englisch; USA; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443806541; 1443806544
• Related ISBNs: 9781847183835; 1847183832
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.