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Writing the black revolutionary diva women's subjectivity and the decolonizing text / by Brown, Kimberly Nichele

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Sucking salt Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival / by Gadsby, Meredith

Table of Contents: “…: saltfish, sexual politics, and the Caribbean oral imagination -- Harvesting salt : Caribbean women writers in England and the philosophy of survival -- I suck coarse salt : Caribbean women writers in Canada--language, location, and the politics of transcendence -- Refugees of a world on fire : kitchen place and refugee space in the poetics of Paule Marshall and Edwidge Danticat.…”
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Transforming scriptures African American women writers and the Bible / by Bassard, Katherine Clay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Talking mules and troubled hermeneutics: Black women's biblical self-disclosures -- Private interpretations: the Bible defense of slavery and nineteenth-century racial hermeneutics -- Sampling the scriptures: Maria W. …”
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Feminist ecocriticism environment, women, and literature /

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Reclaiming authorship literary women in America, 1850-1900 / by Williams, Susan S.

Subjects: “…American literature Women authors History and criticism.…”
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Inter/View : talks with America's writing women / by Pearlman, Mickey, 1938-, Henderson, Katherine U.

Subjects: “…Women and literature United States History 20th century.…”
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Tragic no more : mixed-race women and the nexus of sex and celebrity / by Streeter, Caroline A., 1962-

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German Writing, American Reading : Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 / by Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : made in Germany, read in America -- German women writers at home and abroad -- "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books -- The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home -- Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage -- Feminized history : German men in American translation -- Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91) -- German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908) -- Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).…”
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Writing for Immortality : Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America / by Boyd, Anne E., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Solving the "old riddle of the Sphinx": discovering the self as artist -- "Prov[ing] Avis in the wrong": the lives of women artists -- "The crown and the thorn of gifted life": Imagining the women artist -- "Recognition is the thing": seeking the status of artist.…”
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Home girls Chicana literary voices / by Quintana, Alvina E., 1947-

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I Made You to Find Me The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

Subjects: “…Women and literature United States History 20th century.…”
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Visionary women writers of Chicago's Black Arts Movement by Phelps, Carmen L.

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Bibliographic guide to Chicana and Latina narrative by Leonard, Kathy S., 1952-

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Tell this silence Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…: histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men -- "White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa -- Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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From the modernist annex American women writers in museums and libraries / by Roffman, Karin

Table of Contents: “…Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion.…”
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Negotiating a perilous empowerment Appalachian women's literacies / by Locklear, Erica Abrams

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

Subjects: “…Women Intellectual life. fast (OCoLC)fst01176814 148340…”
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Making the "America of Art" : Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers / by Sofer, Naomi Z.

Subjects: “…Women and literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01177093 20201…”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…A tale of import so divine : new women in the Old World -- I forgot myself : nation and identity in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's travel writing -- Margaret Fuller's Tribune dispatches and the nineteenth-century body politic -- Domesticity and nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento -- How can I write down the flowers? …”
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