San Antonio College Library

For half a century, Madeleine L'Engle has been cherished by young and old for her classic YA books, such as A Wrinkle in Time, A Ring of Endless Light, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, and for her 50-plus adult fiction, poetry, and spiritual titles. Now, in celebration of L'Engle's 80th birthday (November 1998) and the 35th anniversary of her Newbery Medal for A Wrinkle in Time, the original publication Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher has been retitled...

"Communal Feminisms explores identity and exile from three different perspectives: theory, interviews, and imaginative literature. The first part of this book describes and defines exile within identity; the second part delivers twelve interviews and examines the sociohistorical construction of exile through Chicana literature and Chilean literature created and circulated during the Pinochet regime; and the third part contains a collection of unpublished,...

"In Feminism and Its Fictions, Lisa Maria Hogeland argues that women's and feminist fiction of the 1970s was dominated by a new kind of novel whose content and form were shaped by the practice of consciousness raising. She contends that consciousness-raising novels both reflected and furthered the Women's Liberation Movement's analyses of sexuality, gender, race, and political responsibility and that through their narrative structure the novels actually...

"Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communist Left and developed a distinct strand of feminism. This vital yet largely overlooked feminist tradition built upon and critically retheorized the postwar Left's "nationalist internationalism," which connected the liberation of Blacks in the United States to the liberation of Third World nations and the worldwide...

Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, the author juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth of la gran familia, she argues that this metaphor...

The author examines the writing of the Little House books and "explores the relationship between mother and daughter working as collaborative authors and calls into question our assumptions about plot, juvenile fiction, and constructions of gender on the nineteenth century frontier and in the Depression years when the Little House books were written."--Cover.