Narratives of community women's short story sequences (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Roxanne Harde -- Weaving stories of self and community through Vignettes in Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street / Stella Bolaki -- Community and class in Margaret Laurence's A Bird in the House / Pam Chamberlain -- Dissolving borders: towards a community of memory in the fiction of Jayne Anne Phillips / Stéphanie Durrans -- The body indivisible: Shelley Jackson and the feminine figure / Jessica Lingel -- Something she had always heard of: storytelling, sexuality, and community in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples / Sarah L. Peters -- The food, which she was preparing for lunch, often burnt in the little pot: the fragmented domesticities of Salwa Bakr's The Golden Chariot / Emily Smith -- Defamiliarizing the family: Mary Caponegro's The Complexities of Intimacy / Pedro Ponce -- Creating community: motherhood and the search for identity in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine / Michelle Pacht --
- Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place: evolution of a genre / Laura Nicosia -- The structures or ruins of life: gothic dislocation and woman-made community in Grace King's Balcony Stories / Kate Falvey -- Grace King's Balcony Stories as a narrative of community / Heidi M. Hanrahan -- Más tamales, anybody?: Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls and the Chicana narrative of community / Neil Browne and Michelle Harvey -- Elegant Economy: narratives of community in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford / Kristin Berkey-Abbott -- Maggots in the Rice: women as a sex-class in The Woman Warrior / Sarah Gardam -- Maturing communities and dangerous crones / Kim Kirkpatrick -- Woman's claim to literature and the imaginary in Virginia Woolf's A Haunted House / Anne McConnell -- The girls' guide to creating community: analyzing reading communities in chick lit / Caroline J. Smith -- Transatlantic communities: the Joycean influence in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women / Ellen McWilliams --
- A boys' town: Grace Sartwell Mason's Licky and His Gang / Diane Wellins Moul -- Sarah Orne Jewett and the community of American authors / Frances M. Zauhar -- Reflections: narrative, community, narrative of community / Sandra Zagarell -- Narrative of community: the identification of a genre / Sandra Zagarell