Author: Aruna Sitesh
Publisher: Affiliated East-West
Year: 1994
Language: English
Pages: 255
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185336997
Description
In this distinguished collection are gathered the works of some of America's preeminent fiction writers, all passionate land painstaking practitioners of their craft. From the grim realities of urban decadence to the moving preservation of traditions from the past, these stories speak with compassion and eloquence.
Many voices and regions are represented here, from South of Eudora Welty to the New York of Lynne Sharon Schwartz to the Chicago of Maxine Chernoff. These writers draw upon various racial and ethnic heritages - black, white, Jewish, Hispanic, Asian and Native American. Reading them reminds of how powerfully connected we humans are, despite our differences.
These writers know how to make us laugh and cry.
COMMENT:
Aruna Sitesh's collection of contemporary short stories by women of the United States is rich, diverse, and well-balanced. This collection offers the reader an opportunity to experience in one volume e extraordinary variety of life in the US, as seen through the eyes of women writers from many ethnic origins, religious backgrounds, races, and classes. The book is of value to the scholar, general reader, and teacher. In addition, this book is an excellent textbook for courses in short fiction, creative writing, American Studies, and Women's Studies.
- Frieda E Stillerman
Associate Professor, English/Speech Department
Harold Washington College, Chicago.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
Aruna Sitesh
Alice Adams:
An Unscheduled Stop
Ann Beattie:
Janus
Edith Konecky:
The Mother-in-Law
Ella Leffland:
The Forest
Eudora Welty:
A Worn Path
Grace Paley:
Midrash on Happiness
Helena Maria Viramontes:
Snapshots
Hilma Wolitzer:
In the Flesh
Jamaica Kincaid:
Girl
Joanna Russ:
Main Street- 1953
Joanne Greenberg:
Merging Traffic
Joyce Carol Oates:
Shelter
Leslie Marmon Silko:
Humaweepi, the Warrior Priest
Lynda Schor:
My Death
Lynne Sharon Schwartz:
The Middle Classes
Mariana Romo-Carmona:
The Virgin in the Desert
Maxine Chernoff:
Enough
Maxine Hong Kingston:
Persimmon Season
Maxine Kumin: A Traveler's Hello
Meredith Tax:
Wisconsin Gothic
Nancy Potter:
Legacies
Sybil Claiborne:
Acid Rain
Tillie Olsen:
I Stand Here Ironing
Ursula K Le Guin:
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas