American Women Writers: Modern Short Stories

American Women Writers: Modern Short Stories

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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