Research Catalog

Title

Writing women's communities : the politics and poetics of contemporary multi-genre anthologies / Cynthia G. Franklin.

Author

Franklin, Cynthia G.

Publication

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997.

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Description

xi, 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• Exploring intersections and alliances across the often competing categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Writing Women's Communities contributes to current public debates about multiculturalism, feminism, identity politics, the academy as a site of political activism, and the relationship between literature and politics. Franklin points out that the anthology form breaks down distinctions between the "literary" and the "extra-literary" by including many genres.
• Noting the increasing movement of women of color into the academy in the 1980s and 1990s, she shows that the anthology provides a forum that enables the editors - often women working within universities - to reach and remain part of multiple communities.

Subject

• American literature > Theory, etc
• Literature publishing > History > United States > 20th century
• Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century
• Communities in literature
• Literary form

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Writing across Communities -- 2. Another 1981: From This Bridge Called My Back to Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras -- 3. Coming Out and Staying Home: Nice Jewish Girls and Home Girls -- 4. The Making and Unmaking of Asian American Identity: Making Waves and The Forbidden Stitch -- 5. (Un)Common Class Identities in the United States and Britain: Calling Home and The Common Thread -- 6. Around 1996: Re-Placing Identity Politics from the "Racial Paradise" of Hawai'i.

ISBN

• 0299156001 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299156044 (pbk. : alk. paper

LCCN

97009460

OCLC

• 36647836
• ocm36647836

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries