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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460442603321

Autore

Pearlman Mickey <1938->

Titolo

Inter/View : talks with America's writing women / / Mickey Pearlman and Katherine Usher Henderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1990

©1990

ISBN

0-8131-8546-7

0-8131-5968-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/9287/09045

Soggetti

Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Authors, American - 20th century

Women authors, American

Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Alison Lurie; Amy Tan; Gloria Naylor; Gail Godwin; Joyce Carol Oates; Diane Johnson; Susan Fromberg Schaeffer; Marge Piercy; Carole Maso; M.F.K. Fisher; Francine Prose; Alice McDermott; Rosellen Brown; Carolyn See; Laurie Colwin; Joyce Carol Thomas; Shirley Ann Grau; Kate Braverman; Louise Erdrich; Anne Lamott; Josephine Humphreys; Harriet Doerr; Elizabeth Winthrop; Janet Lewis; Irini Spanidou; Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Mona Simpson; Nancy Willard; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Twenty-eight powerful and individual voices are heard as Pearlman and Henderson offer a forum for a generous cross-section of the women writing fiction in America today -- writers whose vital statistics cross the borders of race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual preference, marital status, age, geography, and lifestyle. Each writer is presented in an



essay/interview reflecting the dynamic that develops naturally when two vital minds meet to discuss topic of mutually interest. The writers talk about the role of memory, space, and family in their work, about politics, dreams, and race, about thei