Literature and Gender Thinking Critically Through Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

by Wiegman, Robyn; Glasberg, Elena

• ISBN13: 9780321012609
• ISBN10: 0321012607
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-20
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Primarily drawn from twentieth-century readings, this text is a provocative collection which explores the links between cultural beliefs, social institutions, sexual roles, and personal identity. The fiction, poetry, and drama selections also demonstrate the diversity of gender practices as they relate to differences of race, class, and sexuality. Arranged around three themes-Learning, Living, and Resisting-this anthology asks students to think and write about gender issues within the context and background of gender.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Part I Learning	13	(104)
Poetry
In the Waiting Room	15	(3)
Elizabeth Bishop
Girl	18	(1)
Jamaica Kincaid
Persimmons	19	(3)
Li-Young Lee
Barbie Doll	22	(1)
Marge Piercy
The Purpose of Altar Boys	23	(2)
Alberto Alvaro Rios
My Papa's Waltz	25	(1)
Theodore Roethke
Cinderella	26	(3)
Anne Sexton
The Youngest Daughter	29	(1)
Cathy Song
Fiction
The Lesson	30	(6)
Toni Cade Bambara
The Father	36	(2)
Raymond Carver
X	38	(6)
Lois Gould
In the American Society	44	(11)
Gish Jen
The Shoyu Kid	55	(7)
Lonny Kaneko
State Champions	62	(9)
Bibbie Ann Mason
Like That	71	(6)
Carson McCullers
Miss Clairol	77	(4)
Helena Maria Viramontes
The Man who was Almost a man	81	(9)
Richard Wright
Drama
Giving Up the Ghost	90	(27)
Cherrie
Part II Living	117	(142)
Poetry
The Mother	120	(1)
Gendolyn
Rape	121	(3)
Wanda Coleman
She Being Brand	124	(1)
e. e. cummings
Home Burial	125	(4)
Robert Frost
The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window	129	(2)
Joy Harjo
Deferred	131	(2)
Langston
More Girl than Boy	133	(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
Making Soda Pop	134	(1)
Philip Levine
The Application	135	(2)
Sylvia Plath
Danse Russe	137	(1)
William Carlos Williams
Fiction
Eyes of Papata	138	(16)
Sandra Cisneros
The Bride Comes to yellow Sky	154	(8)
Stephen Crane
The Gilded Six-Bits	162	(8)
Zora Neale Hurston
Moving Pictures	170	(4)
Charles Johnson
Stalking	174	(5)
Joyce Carol Oates
Proofs	179	(6)
Richard Rodriguez
The Rumor	185	(8)
John Updike
Porn	193	(5)
Alice Walker
Hunters in the Snow	198	(10)
Tobias Wolff
The High-Heelef Shoes: A Memoir	208	(5)
Hisaye Yamamoto
Drama
A Soldier's Play	213	(46)
Charles Fuller
Part III Resisting	259	(108)
Poetry
The Women who Hate Me	261	(6)
Dorothy Allison
Little Red Riding Hood	267	(1)
Olga Broumas
The Great Palaces of Versailles	268	(2)
Rita Dove
Nightmare Begins Responsibility	270	(1)
Michael Harper
How to Watch your Brother Die	271	(3)
Michyael Lassell
Fulogy for Alvin Frost	274	(3)
Audre Lorde
I Too Beneath your Moon, Almighty Sex	277	(1)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Notes on Pornography Abandoned	278	(2)
David Mura
The Death of Marilyn Monroe	280	(1)
Sharon Olds
Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev	281	(2)
Adrienne Rich
Call Me Barbie	283	(2)
Gregg Shapiro
Fiction
Jusus Christ's Half-Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation	285	(9)
Sherman Alexie
Bitter Homes and Gardens	294	(6)
Luis Alfaro
Forgiveness	300	(4)
Rebecca Brown
Bloodchild	304	(14)
Octavia Butler
The Yellow Wall-Paper	318	(12)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Sea Change	330	(3)
Ernest Hemingway
Sur	333	(12)
Ursula K. Le Guin
When It Changed	345	(6)
Joanna Russ
Love Problem	351	(3)
Matthew Stadler
Drama
Trifles	354	(13)
Susan Glaspel
Appendix: Writing About Literature and Culture	367	(28)
Credits	395	(4)
Glossary of Key Words	399	(4)
Index of Authors and Titles	403