American Women Short Story Writers A Collection of Critical Essays

The first critical investigation of short stories (SS) written by Amer. women. How has the SS genre has been used by women from 1820 to the present? This book explores the role that the SS form has played in the lives of women readers & writers. How have the lives of women affected the way they write SS? What has been the pub. history of women's SS? What is the history of women's writing educ.' The 20 essays explore the contributions women have made to the SS genre. Topics: representations of female authorship in Amer. mag. fiction; lesbian mag. fiction; Fannie Hurst's short stories of working women; African Amer. women's SS; Amy Tan's novel-in-stories; Denise Chavez's short fiction; & gender & voice in the creative writing classroom.Brown, Julie is the author of 'American Women Short Story Writers A Collection of Critical Essays' with ISBN 9780756760922 and ISBN 0756760925.