Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Women Authors

Devoted exclusively to women writers from the English-speaking world, this book presents undergraduate students with an array of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. Acclaimed experts Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh-Morgan, and James K. Bracken carefully select the most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources for today's college and university students. Represented are more than 180 women writers, from the medieval to the contemporary period, whose works are featured in widely used literature anthologies. The chronological...

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.

What power. Smith s poetry is all "poetry." And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster. Marvin Bell

I was weeping for the beauty of poetry when I reached the end of the final poem. Edward Sanders, National Poetry Series judge

From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation s premier performance poet. Featured in the film "Slamnation" and on the HBO series "Def Poetry Jam, " Smith is...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades, Brooks (1917-2000) speaks with simplicity, depth, candor, and passion about the making of a poem and about the position of the poet in humane society.

A poem, she believed, comes from the heart. In each interview, she speaks from the heart and wins over the reader. The interviews took place in various settings-in radio recording studios and in university classrooms, in the coveted spotlight of...

From the moment Katherine Anne Porter arrived on the American literary scene in 1922, the public was intrigued with her life. Yet she herself revealed only scant facts of her background and often gave conflicting accounts. She maintained, though, that a germ of her own experience lay at the core of everything she wrote.

In Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, Darlene Harbour Unrue finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil. With unprecedented access to archival and personal papers, Unrue brings much new information to light. Porter's maternal...

Winner of the 3rd Annual Miguel Marmol Prize from Curbstone Press, Mary Helen Lagasse's "The Fifth Sun" is an inspiring story of an immigrant who struggles valiantly for a better life for herself and her family. The young Mexican woman, Mercedes, leaves her village to work as a housemaid in New Orleans. This fast-paced novel takes her through her adventures in New Orleans, her marriage, her struggle to raise her children, her deportation, and her attempt to re-cross the river and be reunited with her children."

Discusses the earlier period up until the eighteenth century; focuses on the trials and tribulations that affected feminism and women's literature throughout the twentieth century.

As a chronicler of the African American experience in fiction and as an incisive cultural commentator in her essays and lectures, Toni Morrison (b. 1931) is regarded as one of the nation's most distinguished novelists and intellectuals. Her novels are richly layered narratives that explore the meanings of tragedy and myth in individual lives. Morrison's perspectives on American life and culture, rendered with a deep understanding of the consequences of history and the power of art, are always compelling.

Toni Morrison: Conversations includes interviews with the Nobel Laureate...