Contemporary American women writers narrative strategies / Catherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick, editors.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction ; The Art of the Missing; A Bibliography of Writings by Ann Beattie; Chaste Compactness; A Bibliography of Writings by Grace Paley; Narrative Fringe; A Bibliography of Writings by Annie Dillard ; The Fugal Procedure of Music and Silence; A Bibliography of Writings by Anne Redmon; Invention and Orthodoxy; A Bibliography of Writings by Cynthia Ozick; Medusa Points and Contact Points; A Bibliography of Writings by Anne Tyler; The Dialect and Letters of The Color Purple; A Bibliography of Writings by Alice Walker.

Narrative Technique and Female IdentityA Bibliography of Writings by Maxine Hong Kingston; Mastery of Narrative; A Bibliography of Writings by Toni Morrison; The Double Narrative Structure of Small Changes; A Bibliography of Writings by Marge Piercy; Notes on the Writers; Notes on the Contributors.

Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression. The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent ways rely.

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