Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class, Ethnicity

by Lois Parkinson Zamora

This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos. The essays consider how identities and societies are dramatized in particular works of fiction, and how these works reflect cultural communities outside the fictional frame - often the communities in which their authors live and work. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582226201
• ISBN13: 9780582226203
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"