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Word: On Being A (Woman) Writer

June Jordan (Contributor), Yvonne Vera (Contributor), Luisa Valenzuela (Contributor), Margaret Atwood (Contributor), Barbara Kingsolver (Contributor), Bell Hooks (Contributor), and Jocelyn Burrell (Editor)
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9781558614673
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Release Date: 2004-11-19
ITEM OVERVIEW
From Margaret Atwood to Luisa Valenzuela, Ewidge Danticat to Jeanette Winterson, some of the world's most famous literary voices meditate on what it means to be a woman writer. In 24 brilliant essays that are both deeply personal and powerfully political, these writers topple all fixed ideas of "the woman writer," revealing themselves as utterly individual and powerfully interconnected authors of the written word, of the human heart, of what we dare to imagine as possible. Some others names you'll be pleased to find herein include Jennifer DiMarco, Assia Djebar, bell hooks, June Jordan, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Ling, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Yvonne Vera...