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Backtalk : women writers speak out : interviews

Author: Donna Marie Perry
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Donna Marie Perry
ISBN: 0813519918 9780813519913 0813521998 9780813521992
OCLC Number: 27069696
Description: xix, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Paula Gunn Allen --
Gloria Anzaldúa --
Pat Barker --
Mary Beckett --
Rosario Ferré --
Vivian Gornick --
Jamaica Kincaid --
Barbara Kingsolver --
Maxine Hong Kingston --
Valerie Miner --
Gloria Naylor --
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne --
Joan Riley --
Joanna Russ --
Leslie Marmon Silko.
Responsibility: by Donna Perry.
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Abstract:

This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of people, especially women, who have been silenced in the past. By breaking silence, these writers are changing the face of contemporary literature. In direct, provocative.

conversation, these writers discuss their work and other topics: the influence of family members and their native communities, getting started as writers, writing as women, the role of "literary tradition" in helping or hindering their growth, the responsibility of the writer to the community, the question of writing accessibly versus experimenting, the energizing power of anger, the politics of publishing, and the impact of one's race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or.

sexual orientation on getting read, published, and reviewed.

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