Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-class Roots
Author: Lorraine López
ISBN: 9780472050789
This compelling volume brings together personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class origins. The contributors include Dorothy Allison, Joy Castro, Lisa D. Chavez, Mary Childers, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Teresa de la Caridad Doval, Maureen Gibbon, Dwonna Goldstone, Joy Harjo, Lorraine M. Lopez, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Amelia Montes, Bich Minh Nguyen, Judy Owens, Lynn Pruett, Heather Sellers, and Angela Threatt. In a sense, these stories are the travel narratives of women who have journeyed beyond their family circumstances to cross class borders, aided by educational opportunities that encouraged their literary gifts to blossom. Some of the essays reflect on the immigrant experience and struggles against the multiplying factors of poverty, gender, and ethnicity; others recount the first moment of awareness of class (for Bich Minh Nguyen, it occurred while watching "Laverne and Shirley" on the family's first television
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publish Date: 2009
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Literary Collections / American / General, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Social Classes
This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Class/Economics)