Literature

ALICE WALKER BANNED
Alice Walker
Introduction by Patricia Holt
Featuring reprints of Alice Walker's stories "Roselily" and "Am I Blue?" and an excerpt from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, this gift book explores attempts to marginalize one of our most provocative writers. Alice Walker Banned also looks at the controversial removal of the stories from a 1994 California Learning Assessment examination and repeated efforts to remove The Color Purple from school curricula and libraries.
AUNT LUTE BOOKS $10.95 HARDCOVER

HARLEM'S GLORY: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950
Edited by Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph
Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing in the poems, stories, memoirs and essays of dozens of African American women writers, including such luminaries as Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson and Angelina Weld Grimko. With its wealth of discoveries and rediscoveries, this book compels a reassessment of the place of these writings within American literary and historical culture.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS $29.95 HARDCOVER

ART AND AFFECTION: A Life of Virginia Woolf
PANTHEA REID
Graced with 60 rare photographs, this moving volume illuminates the life of one of the great voices of modern literature. Reid has drawn on a wealth of original documents to shed light on how the twin desires to write and to be loved drove Woolf all her life. Reid is particularly insightful on Woolf's relationship with her sister, Vanessa, and her influence on Woolf's writing.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS $30.00 HARDCOVER

PEOPLE WHO LED TO MY PLAYS
ADRIENNE KENNEDY
"There's just no other book like this. As vital to the canon of African American women's contemporary writings as Toni Morrison's Sula or Alice Walker's The Color Purple. An amazing document of an artist's journey to find voice, but also a testament to the wondrous polyglot that is American culture. Kennedy is one of our most precious navigators."-Lisa Jones, Bulletproof Diva.
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP $14.95 PAPER

OURIKA: An English Translation
CLAIRE DE DURAS
Translated by John Fowles
"A beautiful, concise portrait of a soul's dark night." -Rapport. John Fowles translates the nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for The French Lieutenant's Woman. Based on a true story, Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic family during the French Revolution. "Delightful...[an] enchanting story." -Booklist.
MLA TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS $5.95 PAPER

TORN LACE AND OTHER STORIES
EMILIA PARDO BAZEN
Translated by Maria Cristina Urruela
One of the most important writers of nineteenth-century Spain, Emilia Pardo Bazen wrote stories noted for their narrative complexity and feminist themes. The 16 stories collected here explore relationships between the sexes - from the unwed pregnant woman who finds unexpected help from a misogynist doctor to the bachelor who develops a special test for prospective wives, only to see it backfire. Available in December.
MLA TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS $7.95 PAPER

NATURE'S BAN: Women's Incest Literature
EDITED BY KAREN JACOBSEN
Mclennan Women's incest narratives have been traditionally suppressed and silenced in literary history. This diverse anthology of women's fiction, poetry and memoirs reveals that incest or the threat of incest is a recurring theme over nine centuries. By documenting a history that would otherwise be lost, Nature's Ban provides a resource for survivors seeking stories bearing witness to their own abuse.
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS $16.95 PAPER

THE SHOCK OF ARRIVAL: Reflections of the Postcolonial Experience
MEENA ALEXANDER
In this collection of lyrical reflections, acclaimed South Asian American poet and novelist Meena Alexander unleashes a fury of prose and poetry to confront the stereotypes and explore the challenges facing postcolonial immigrants in America. The Shock of Arrival is always provocative and often startling - a deeply personal and fierce testament to the imperative to write and resist.
SOUTH END PRESS $15.00/$40.00 PAPER/HARDCOVER

OF CITIES AND WOMEN (Letters to Fawwaz) ETEL ADNAN
In this provocative study on feminism, Adnan adopts an adventurous approach of letters written from different European and Mediterranean cities. She explores art, race, culture and politics, and their relationship to women's lives. "An exquisite sensibility - a cross between the mysticism of Rabia and Hildegard of Bingen and the American lucidity of Emily Dickinson." -The Nation.
THE POST-APOLLO PRESS $11.00 PAPER

FAMILY: American Writers Remember Their Own
Edited by Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer
From the editors of Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own, here is a wonderful new collection of essays about family. Contributors include Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Bell Hooks, Beverly Donofrio, Alice Hoffman, Elizabeth McCracken, Chang-rae Lee, Jayne Anne Phillips, David Sedaris, Deborah Tannen and Marion Winik. The editors will donate half their royalties to organizations that help families.
PANTHEON $23.00 HARDCOVER

WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
EDITED BY BRENDA KNIGHT
Introduction by Anne Waldman
This fascinating anthology of the life, times and writings of 40 women showcases their work and offers a glimpse into the Beat movement as it has never been seen: through the eyes of women who were there. Women Of The Beat Generation sheds light on the important but often overlooked talent of some of the best minds of the time.
CONARI PRESS $19.95 HARDCOVER

DEEP SIGHTINGS AND RESCUE MISSIONS
Stories, Essays and Conversations
TONI CADE BAMBARA
Toni Cade Bambara, the author of three pioneering, timeless works - The Salt Eaters, The Seabirds Are Still Alive and Gorilla, My Love - was one of the founders of the contemporary Black women's literature movement. Published on the first anniversary of her death, Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions is an unexpected treasure of writings, many of which have never before appeared in print.
PANTHEON $23.00 HARDCOVER