Clear and Present Danger

Arielle Zibrak (Editor)

Twelve Stories by American Women

3,A collection of twelve essential short stories by iconic American women writers that introduces a more diverse canon and emphasizes non-white and queer writers to better represent the experiences of all American women and to understand the importance of the short story for women A Penguin Classic One of The Millions' Winter Most Anticipated. "Zibrak curates a dozen short stories by women writers who have long been left out of American literary canon--most of them women of color--from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper to Zitkala-Sa." - The Millions When Four Stories by American Women was first published by Penguin Classics in 1990, it understandably reflected the second-wave feminist interpretations of that time--a period marked by an impressive recovery of what were then considered to be minor American writers. Since then, the four white women writers included in the volume--Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Edith Wharton--have become canonical figures, and scholars have grown to see their work as only a small part of the rich tapestry of American women's lives, values, and political beliefs in the fertile period of late nineteenth century and ...

Jenni Ramone (Author)

Global Literature and Gender

Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Globa

Tripathi) (Author)

A Portrait of Love: Six Stories; One Novella

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala' was among the maverick writers who shaped modern Hindi literature. In hi