TY - BOOK AU - Rainwater,Catherine AU - Scheick,William J. TI - Contemporary American women writers : : narrative strategies / SN - 0813115582 U1 - 813.54 CON PY - 1985/// CY - Lexington, KY : PB - University Press of Kentucky, KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Women and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Bibliography KW - Narration (Rhetoric) N1 - 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 ER -