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THE AUNT LUTE ANTHOLOGY OF U.S. WOMEN WRITERS
Volume Two: The 20th Century
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The story of U.S. literature in the twentieth century is in many ways the story of the hard-won emergence of women's voices--all kinds of women's voices--into print. The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two: The 20th Century is an unprecedented effort to capture, in all its scope and variety, the extraordinary result of that florescence. Editors: Shay Brawn and Lisa Hogeland $45.00 978-1-879960-77-0 |
What a treasure trove! The famous (Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison), and the obscure (Fradel Schtok, Luisa Moreno), the outraged and the outrageous, the ironic, the engaged, the hilarious, the inspiring-all are here in this kaleidoscopic collection of a century and more of women writers. Even those who know her story will find new sources of pleasure and surprise among the poets, story writers, lyricists, activists, playwrights represented in this important new book.
--Paul Lauter, Smith Professor of Literature, Trinity College (Hartford)
This volume of The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers is the most extensive and inclusive collection ever assembled of 20th-21st century U.S. women authors. It is a grand cornucopia that serves to demonstrate the astonishing multiplicity of women's literary expression and to remind us of the very rich complexity of the category "woman."
--Lillian Faderman, editor of Chloe Plus Oliva: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present
The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers is a thorough and wide-ranging collection of authors, both canonical and lesser-known. It promises to be a valuable resource for teachers, students, and literature enthusiasts alike.--Grace Hong, author of The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor
Once again, Aunt Lute has compiled a volume of women's writing that scholars, teachers, and students will enjoy for years to come. Paying attention to the intersection--taking seriously the importance of black feminist critique--the editors have moved through a vast array of women's writing to give us diversity in genre and geography. Keep this one on your coffee table, give it to friends and relatives--but most of all, return to it and enjoy its stunning achievement.
--Sharon P. Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
N e w R e l e a s e!!!
LeAnne Howe, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the author of three books, including the novel Shell Shaker (Aunt Lute 2001), winner of the 2002 American Book Award. In 2006-2007 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi at Oxford. Howe wrote the screenplay for Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire, a 90-minute PBS documentary released in November 2006. Her poetry collection Evidence of Red (Salt Publishing, UK; 2005) was awarded the 2006 Oklahoma Book Award. Currently, Howe is Associate Professor and Interim Director of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and teaches in the M.F.A. program there. She divides her time between her home in Ada, Oklahoma, and her academic life in Illinois. |
Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story LeAnne Howe
"LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings is an incredible act of recovery: baseball, a sport jealously guarded by mainstream Anglo culture, is also rooted in Native American history and territory. The irony behind its status as "the all-American pastime" is not lost on Howe as she weaves these compelling stories and narratives to expose the political games of the 20th century that NativeAmericans learned to play for resistance and survival." —Rigoberto González, author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water Until It Breaks and Butterfly Boy
Click here to read LeAnne Howe's blog Click here to listen to an interview of LeAnne Howe on Native America Calling (Scroll down to February 27, 08) Click here to see a review of Miko Kings in City Pages Click here to listen to LeAnne Howe read on "Live from Prairie Lights", WSUI, Iowa City (scroll down to 3/26/08)
LeAnne Howe's 2008 Touring Schedule April 10-12 Native American and Indigenous Studies Meeting, Athens, Georgia. April 18-20 Biennial Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. May 4 Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, 1 pm Evanston, IL. Nov. 15 Iroquois Indian Museum, Reading/Film showing, 2 pm. Nov. 16 Iroquois Indian Museum, Workshop, 1 pm, Howes Cave, New York.
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