Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Corinne H. Dale

J.H.E. Paine

Chapter 1: (Dis)Continuous Narrative: The Articulation of a Chicana Feminist Voice in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street

Deborah L. Madsen

Chapter 2: Beyond Otherness: Negotiated Identities and Viramontes' "The Cariboo Cafe"

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Chapter 3: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing: Making More Room for Puerto Rican Womanhood

Nancy L. Chick

Chapter 4: Flight and Arrival: A Study of Padma Hejmadi's Short Story, "Weather Report"

Lakshmi Holmstrom

Chapter 5: Subversive Extravagance: Women in Hisaye Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables" and "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara"

Veronica C. Wang

Chapter 6: Afrekete Rising: Two Coming-out Stories by African-American Lesbians: Pat Suncircle's "A Day's Growth" and Audre Lorde's "The Beginning"

M. Charlene Ball

Chapter 7: Race/[Gender]: Toni Morrison's "Recitatif"

David Goldstein-Shirley

Chapter 8: Playing in the Light: White Girls Dreaming in Eudora Welty's "Moon Lake"

Elaine Orr

Chapter 9: Ruth's Journey into the Fields: Feminism in Ozick's "The Pagan Rabbi"

Kathy Rugoff

Chapter 10 Reconstructing the Native-American Woman: Louise Erdrich's "Fleur"

Corinne H. Dale

Contributors' Notes

Index