San Antonio College Library

This guide celebrates the twentieth-century achievements of women writers across the English-speaking world as well as all the centuries before. This comprehensive work of reference on literary women writing in English with over 2500 entries written by academics, freelances and journalists, men and women, poets and novelists, young scholars and distinguished names.--[book cover]. "This Guide aims to consolidate and epitomise the re-reading of women's...

This landmark anthology reveals the depth and scope of women's dramatic voices during the middle years of this century. Among the eight plays in the volume are smart comedies and poignant tragedies, political agitprop and surrealist fantasies, established classics and neglected treasures. Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford's Can You Hear Their Voices? uses presentational techniques to expose the suffering of starving farmers while Shirley...

"Women writing for the stage today are the heirs of a neglected but not negligible tradition. This anthology brings together for the first time five of the best plays written by America's 'forgotten' women playwrights before 1930. Fasion is a social comedy that brilliantly satirizes the status-hungry nouveau riche of urban America; A Man's World examines the working woman's domain and the injustice of the double standard; Trifles is a perfectly constructed...

Provides poems by the three greatest poetesses of the Tang dynasty, China's golden age. One of them, a slave and a courtesan, matched wits with some of the greatest poets of the time. Another one, a Taoist sister, was executed by imperial order for her outspoken criticism of government. The third, also a Taoist sister, was killed by a conspiracy of spurned suitors.

This collection reveals the richness of the narrative fiction of prizewinning writer Carme Riera. Riera forms part of the veritable explosion of literature by women writers in post-Franco Spain and she is specifically linked to the talented constellation of women writing in Catalan. Moveable Margins opens with an overview of Carme Riera's life and opus followed by a section with a preface by Riera and two interviews bringing the writer herself into...

"This introduction to contemporary Native American literature is suitable for students with little or no knowledge of the subject, or of Native American culture or history." "It examines influential texts in the context of the historical moment of their production, with reference to significant literary developments. Most importantly, Native literature is assessed within the wider socio-political context of American colonialism, the history of Federal-Indian...