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Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820352558)
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xHow do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make time for their lives as artists? In this anthology, noted female novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, and nonfiction writers address the old and new challenges of "doing it all" that face women writers as the twenty-first century approaches. With eloquence, sensitivity, and more than a touch of wry humor, Sleeping with One Eye Open relates positive stories from women who lead effective lives as artists, emphasizing how sources of inspiration, discipline, resourcefulness, and determination help them succeed despite the obstacle of "no time."
The title essay, Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The Woman Who Slept with One Eye Open," defines the collection. Cofer relates the ways in which a mythological story from her Puerto Rican culture gave her confidence and courage, encouraging her creative success and emphasizing the rewards of "women'sAuthor: Aleida Rodríguez
ISBN-10: 0820352551
ISBN-13: 9780820352558
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2017
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Aleida Rodríguez
xJudith Ortiz Cofer (Editor)
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (1952-2016) was the Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer; and many other books. The University of Georgia Press published her first novel, The Line of the Sun, in 1989. Marilyn Kallet (Editor)
MARILYN KALLETT has published sixteen books, including six volumes of poetry, translations, critical essays, children's books, pedagogy, and anthologies of women's literature. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (1952-2016) was the Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer; and many other books. The University of Georgia Press published her first novel, The Line of the Sun, in 1989. Marilyn Kallet (Editor)
MARILYN KALLETT has published sixteen books, including six volumes of poetry, translations, critical essays, children's books, pedagogy, and anthologies of women's literature. She is a professor emerita of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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