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Wayward Girls and Wicked Women : An Anthology of Subversive Stories by Angela Carter (1989, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140103716

ISBN-139780140103717

eBay Product ID (ePID)74447

Product Key Features

Book TitleWayward Girls and Wicked Women : an Anthology of Subversive Stories

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Women, Short Stories (Single Author), Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Literary

Publication Year1989

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction

AuthorAngela Carter

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length7.6 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN88-021892

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal808.83/9352042

Table Of ContentWayward Girls and Wicked WomenAcknowledgments Introduction ELIZABETH JOLLEY: The Last Crop LEONORA CARRINGTON: The Débutante ROCKY GÁMEZ: from The Gloria Stories BESSIE HEAD: Life JANE BOWLES: A Guatemalan Idyll KATHERINE MANSFIELD: The Young Girl SUNITI NAMJOSHI: Three Feminist Fables COLETTE: The Rainy Moon GEORGE EGERTON: Wedlock FRANCES TOWERS: Violet AMA ATA AIDOO: The Plums GRACE PALEY: A Woman Young and Old ANDRÉE CHEDID: The Long Trial ANGELA CARTER: The Loves of Lady Purple DJUNA BARNES: The Earth VERNON LEE: Oke of Okehurst JAMAICA KINCAID: Girl LUO SHU: Aunt Liu Notes on the Authors

SynopsisIn 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.

LC Classification NumberPN6120.95.W7W39 1989