Contemporary American women writers: narrative strategies

Ann Beattie, the art of the missing / Carolyn Porter

Grace Paley, chaste compactness / Ronald Schleifer

Annie Dillard, narrative fringe / William J. Scheick

Anne Redmon, the fugal procedure of Music and silence / Catherine Rainwater

Cynthia Ozick, invention and orthodoxy / Ellen Pifer

Anne Tyler, medusa points and contact points / Mary F. Robertson

Alice Walker, the dialect and letters of The color purple / Elizabeth Fifer

Maxine Hong Kingston, narrative technique and female identity / Suzanne Juhasz

Toni Morrison, mastery of narrative / Linda W. Wagner

Marge Piercy, the double narrative structure of Small changes / Elaine Tuttle Hansen and William J. Scheick.