women and literature

"Akron, Ohio, 1851: A brother and sister listen to Sojourner Truth deliver her speech. Aligned with curriculum standards, these narrative-nonfiction books also highlight key 21st Century content: Global Awareness, Media Literacy, and Civic Literacy. Thought-provoking content and hands-on activities encourage critical thinking. Book includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and timeline"--.

A biography of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Presents a collection of essays by American writer, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag.

Profiles the lives and works of twelve female writers who challenged society's beliefs and norms about vital issues including Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Ayn Rand, and others.

A study of the lives and works of women writers who practiced their art during the Harlem Renaissance of the early twentieth century, focusing on African-American authors Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston.

Recent African-American women writers discuss their lives and work, followed by critical essays by both men and women.

This exploration of Zora Neale Hurston's life and work draws on newly discovered information and manuscripts that bring new dimensions of her writing to light. Zora Neale Hurston is best known for the landmark novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But no understanding of Hurston is complete without considering all the forms of her work, including her extraordinary work as a folklorist, in light of the newly discovered information, texts, and film footage. This volume caps a decade of resurgent popularity and critical interest in Hurston to offer a critical analysis of her work. Encompassing all of Hurston's writings, fiction, folklore manuscripts, drama, correspondence, it fully reaffirms the legacy of this writer, whom Alice Walker (author of The Color Purple) called "A Genius of the South." This work offers 20 critical essays covering the breadth of Hurston's writing, including her poetry, which up to now has received little attention. Essays throughout are informed by new research, previously unseen manuscripts, and even film clips of Hurston. The book also focuses on aspects of Hurston's life and work that remain controversial, including her stance on desegregation, her relationships with Charlotte Mason, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright, and the veracity of her autobiography, Dust Tracks On a Road.

Includes essays on the following American women authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary N. Murfree, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Ellen Glasgow, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Zora Neale Hurston, Constance Rourke, Pearl Buck, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Margaret Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath.