Girl in a library : on women writers & the writing life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cherry, Kelly
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kansas City, Mo. : BkMk Press/University of Missouri-Kansas City, [2009]
Subjects:	American literature > Southern States > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Cherry, Kelly. Women authors, American > 20th century > Biography.

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.