The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts and categories. This book develops and challenges historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, all of which will advance the future study of American women writers – from Native Americans to postmodern communities, from individual careers to communities of writers and readers.
Inventarisatie van de stand van zaken in de VS rond etniciteit, sociale klasse, gender en seksualiteit, na de periode van de seksuele revolutie, de burgerrechtenbeweging en de tweede feministische golf.