Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

by Carter, Angela

• ISBN13: 9780140103717
• ISBN10: 0140103716
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-01-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

In Elizabeth Jolley's "The Last Crop," a seemingly guileless woman cons a man out of his land. In Leonora Carrinton's "The Debutante," a young girl sends a hyena to her coming-out ball, with disastrous results. The title character in Frances Towers's "Violet" uses her talent for witchcraft with wicked intention. Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" faces a litany of her mother's strictures and admonishments, and Suniti Namjoshi's bittersweet fables suggest that nothing a woman does will ever be really right. But whether these women are bad or good, evil or benign, guilty or innocent, calculating or naive, they are not victims. None of them suffers passively at the hands of men. Each manages to confront her circumstances and sometimes, though not always, triumph over them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Last Crop	p. 1
The Debutante	p. 22
From The Gloria Stories	p. 25
Life	p. 33
A Guatemalan Idyll	p. 45
The Young Girl	p. 79
Three Feminist Fables	p. 85
The Rainy Moon	p. 87
Wedlock	p. 136
Violet	p. 156
The Plums	p. 169
A Woman Young and Old	p. 234
The Long Trial	p. 246
The Loves of Lady Purple	p. 254
The Earth	p. 267
Oke of Okehurst	p. 275
Girl	p. 326
Aunt Liu	p. 328
Notes on the Authors	p. 335
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