Bibliograph

Girl in a library, on women writers & the writing life, Kelly Cherry

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Girl in a library, on women writers & the writing life, Kelly Cherry

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Girl in a library

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

321047599

Responsibility statement

Kelly Cherry

Sub title

on women writers & the writing life

Table Of Contents

Authority -- Why I write -- I was a teenage Beatnik -- The beauty mark -- My mother and Mr. Allen Dewey Spooner -- The meaning of guilt (Anne Tyler) -- Self and strangeness -- Fictions by four contemporary African American women writers (Colleen J. McElroy, Gayl Jones, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange) -- Art we cannot live without : Mary Ward Brown -- A girl in a library -- Two feuilletons, each managing to mention Emily Dickinson -- Locating the female self in relation to the male tradition -- A grace beyond the reach of art : teaching poetry -- Third feuilleton -- Self and sensibility : Elizabeth Hardwick -- Literary theory and the actual writer -- The daresomeness of a Southern woman writer (Bobbie Ann Mason) -- The globe and the brain : on place in fiction -- What comes next : women writing women in contemporary short fiction -- Why I write now -- Called to it : an autobiography

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