American women writers have long been creating an extraordinarily diverse and vital body of fiction, particularly in the decades since World War II. Recent auth

Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to

This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among the

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American literature is no longer the refuge of the solitary hero. Like the society it mirrors, it is now a far richer, many-faceted explication of a complicated