Envisioning the New Adam

by Daly, Patricia Ellen Martin

• ISBN13: 9780313290954
• ISBN10: 0313290954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

Journalist and feminist scholar Patricia Martin Daly has culled from the writings of a variety of American women a literary anthology of poems and short stories that offer sympathetic portrayals of men. Divided into two parts, with an Introduction to each, these portraits invite a dialogue between nonsexist men and women who are struggling both to free themselves from restrictive gender roles and to create a post-patriarchal society. In addition, these stories and poems represent a long-overlooked contribution by women to the American Adamic myth, the myth of America as a New World Garden of Eden. With the burgeoning interest in gender studies, this anthology is ideal for courses in Women's and Men's Studies, Gender Studies, as well as American Studies and Literature.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Potential, But Untransformed New Adams

"Appraisal" by Sara Teasdale

"The Mutes" by Denise Levertov

"Paul's Case" by Willa Cather

"Tom's Husband" by Sarah Orne Jewett

"By the North Gate" by Joyce Carol Oates

New Adams Undergoing Transformation

"After the Winter" by Kate Chopin

"Poem for Granville Ivanhoe Jordan November 4, 1890-December 21, 1914" by June Jordan

"My Father in the Navy: A Childhood Memory" by Judith Ortiz Cofer

"The Gilded Six Bits" by Zora Neale Hurston

"A Tender Man" by Toni Cade Bambara

"Parker's Back" by Flannery O'Connor

"When He's at His Most Brawling" by Patricia Goedicke

"A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud" by Carson McCullers

Epilogue

Selected Bibliography

Index