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A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives

A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives


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Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research, from Little House on the Prairie to Little Women, from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Nancy Drew, Mary Jane, and even the Chinese memoir Jottings from the Transcendant's Abode at Mt. Youtai. Telling the "story of her story" leads each of the essayists to insights about her own approach to studying narratives and to a deeper, often surprising, understanding of the power of imagination. Contributors are Deyonne Bryant, Minjie Chen, Cindy L. Christiansen, Beverly Lyon Clark, Karen Coats, Wendy Doniger, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Betsy Hearne, Joanna Hearne, Ann Hendricks, Rania Huntington, Christine Jenkins, Kimberly Lau, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Maria Tatar, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Roberta Seelinger Trites, Claudia Quintero Ulloa, and Ofelia Zepeda.  

Table of Contents:
Introduction   ix ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES AND BETSY HEARNE PART 1. FINDING THE COMPASS 1. The Tea Fragrance Chamber   1 RANIA HUNTINGTON 2. Academic Grief: Journeys with Little Women   8 ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES 3. Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism   19 KIMBERLY J. LAU 4. A Language Journey   31 OFELIA ZEPEDA 5. A Thousand and One Tales   39 MARIA TATAR 6. A Passage to, and from, India   47 WENDY DONIGER PART 2. LITERARY AND CRITICAL DIRECTIONS 7. Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void: Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and The Teachings of Don Juan   57 BONNIE GLASS-COFFIN 8. Wet Work and Dry Work: Notes from a Lacanian Mother   68 KAREN COATS 9. The Pleasures of Dreaming: How L. M. Montgomery Shaped My Lifeworlds   80 EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS 10. Her Story and History: Journeys with Laura Ingalls Wilder   96 PAMELA RINEY-KEHRBERG 11. A Moral Compass: Dorothy Sterling's Mary Jane   102 DEYONNE BRYANT 12. Uniquely Qualified   115 ANN HENDRICKS PART 3. ESCAPING HOME, FINDING HOME 13. Wondering with Alice   125 BEVERLY LYON CLARK 14. Romancing the Muse of History: The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, and Me   131 CHRISTINE A. JENKINS 15. The Ghost in the Borrowed Story: A Mystery in Twenty Chapters   141 CINDY L. CHRISTIANSEN 16. Generations of Melodrama: A Cinderella Story   156 CLAUDIA QUINTERO ULLOA 17. My Journey Home   170 MINJIE CHEN 18. Birth Maps   180 JOANNA HEARNE 19. Bringing the Story Home: A Journey with Beauty and the Beast   194 BETSY HEARNE Contributors   213 Index   217

About the Author :
Betsy Hearne is the former director of the Center for Children's Books and a professor emerita in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Roberta Seelinger Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University.

Review :
"Beautifully written, exquisite in conception, and full of substance." Shirley Brice Heath, author of Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms "Never before have I read such insightful and unique accounts about the power of books in determining the paths that we take in our lives. These extraordinary stories are counter-narratives to the dominant male discourse of academia, revealing how academia has benefited from stories that it has sought to exclude." Jack Zipes, author of Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre "The essayists in this thoughtful collection reflect upon the diverse stories that were influential as they journeyed toward lives of achievement. These stories about stories engage the reader and invite meditation on our own narrative compasses." Judy Nolte Temple, professor of women's studies and English, University of Arizona "This compelling and memorable collection is impressive in the range of works discussed, the diversity of voices and disciplinary perspectives, the depth of autobiograhical exploration and reflection, and the lucidity and thoughtfulness of the essays." Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, editor of Women/Writing/Teaching


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780252076114
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Illinois Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Sub Title: Stories That Guide Women's Lives
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0252076117
  • Publisher Date: 13 Mar 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 399 gr


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