TY - BOOK AU - Pearlman,Mickey TI - American women writing fiction: memory, identity, family, space SN - 0813116570 AV - PS374.W6 A46 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - American fiction KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Psychological fiction, American KW - Bibliography KW - Fiction KW - Authorship KW - Psychological aspects KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Space and time in literature KW - Memory in literature KW - Families in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Femmes dans la litt�erature KW - Roman am�ericain KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Femmes et litt�erature KW - �Etats-Unis KW - Histoire KW - �Ecrits de femmes am�ericains KW - Bibliographie N1 - Includes bibliographies; Joyce Carol Oates: the enclosure of identity in the earlier stories; Frank R. Cunningham ; Anne Hiemstra --; Mary Gordon: the struggle with love; John W. Mahon --; Joan Didion: the bond between narrator and heroine in Democracy; Katherine Usher Henderson --; Louise Erdich: Of cars, time, and the river; Marvin Magalaner ; Mickey Pearlman --; Alison Lurie: the uses of adultery; Katharine M. Rogers ; Mickey Pearlman --; Susan Fromberg Schaeffer: the power of memory, family, and space; Mickey Pearlman --; Toni Cade Bambara: the dance of character and community; Martha M. Vertreace --; Gail Godwin: the Odd woman and literary feminism; Rachel M. Brownstein ; Mickey Pearlman --; Jayne Anne Phillips: women's narrative and the recreation of history; Phyllis Lassner --; Mary Lee Settle: "Ambiguity of steel"; Jane Gentry Vance ; Jane gentry vance and Mickey Pearlman; Also issued online ER -