Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies / C atherine Rainwater and William J. Scheick, editors. - Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, c1985. - 234 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies.

Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter. -- Grace Paley , chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer. -- Annie Dillard, narrative fr inge / William J. Scheick. -- Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater. -- Cynthia Ozick, invention & ortho doxy / Ellen Pifer. -- Anne Tyler, medusa points & contact points / Mar y F. Robertson. -- Alice Walker, the dialect & letters of The color pur ple / Elizabeth Fifer. -- Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique & f emale identity / Suzanne Juhasz. -- Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner. -- Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen & William J. Scheick.

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American fiction -- History and criticism.-- 20th century
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- History -- United States -- 20th century.
American fiction -- Women authors -- Bibliography.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.

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