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Writing
Women's Communities
The Politics and Poetics
of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies
Cynthia G. Franklin
"Explores the identities of women of color, Jewish women,
working class women, and lesbians in a critical investigation
of the politics and production of feminist anthologies."—Deborah
Carlin, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
Beginning in the 1980s, a number of popular and influential anthologies
organized around themes of shared identity—Nice Jewish
Girls, This Bridge Called My Back, Home Girls, and others—have
brought together women's fiction and poetry with journal entries,
personal narratives, and transcribed conversations. These groundbreaking
multi-genre anthologies, Cynthia G. Franklin demonstrates, have
played a crucial role in shaping current literary studies, in
defining cultural and political movements, and in building connections
between academic and other communities.
Exploring intersections and alliances across the often competing
categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Writing
Women's Communities contributes to current public debates
about multiculturalism, feminism, identity politics, the academy
as a site of political activism, and the relationship between
literature and politics.
Cynthia G. Franklin is assistant professor of English at the University
of Hawai'i.
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November 1997
LC: 97-009460
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278 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-15600-1 Cloth $34.95 s
ISBN 0-299-15604-4 Paper $18.95 s
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