Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820319090 ISBN 13: 9780820319094

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Exploring a variety of writers over an array of time periods, subject matter, race and ethnicity, sexual preference, tradition, genre, and style, this volume represents the fruits of
the dramatic and celebrated growth of the study of American women writers today. From established figures such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Katherine Ann Porter to emerging voices including early American novelist Tabitha Tenney; the first African American novelist, Harriet E. Wilson; modern dramatist Sophie Treadwell; and contemporaries such as Sandra Cisneros, Grace Paley, and June Jordan, the essays present fresh approaches and furnish a wealth of illustrations for the multiple selves created and addressed in women’s writing. These selves intersect and connect to embody a multiethnic rhetoric of the “self” that is uniquely feminine and uniquely American. Calling attention to their “American feminist rhetoric,” Jeanne Campbell Reesman identifies many connections among different feminist, poststructuralist, narratological, and comparativist strategies. The voices of Speaking the Other Self well represent the inner and outer, speaking and hearing, center and frame in women’s writing in America, their intersections constructing an ongoing conversation, a borderland of new possibilities―a borderland with no borders, no barriers to thought and response and change, no end of possible voices and selves.

About this title

About the Author:

JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of American Designs: The Late Novels of James and Faulkner and Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction. Her other books include Trickster Lives and Speaking the Other Self (both Georgia).

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0820319090
• ISBN 13: 9780820319094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Reesman Jeanne Campbell