TY - BOOK AU - Rainwater,Catherine AU - Scheick,William J. TI - Contemporary American women writers: narrative strategies SN - 9780813157153 AV - PS379 .C668 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Women and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Bibliography KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938247&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -