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and Chilean literature created and circulated during the Pinochet regime; and the third part contains a collection of unpublished,...

The battle of the sexes in science fiction is an account of the role of women and feminism in the development of American science fiction during its formative years, the mid-20th century.

"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...

"A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of American women poets. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets...

"Sex, satire, feminism and beond--these are some of the themes examined here in provocative essays by experts in science fiction, both men and women. Writing especially for this volume, they explore the special "feminine" approach to SF that has created an impressive body of work, including the prize-winning novels of recent years by such writers as Joan D. Vinge and Suzy McKee Charnas."--Publisher's description.