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title	:	Backtalk : Women Writers Speak Out : Interviews
author	:	Perry, Donna Marie
publisher	:	Rutgers University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0813519918
print isbn13	:	9780813519913
ebook isbn13	:	9780585026640
language	:	English
subject	Women authors, American--Interviews, Authors, American--20th century--Interviews, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Women and literature--History--20th century, Authorship--Sex differences, Women authors--Interviews.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PS151.B33 1993eb
ddc	:	810.9/9287
subject	:	Women authors, American--Interviews, Authors, American--20th century--Interviews, Women and literature--United States--History--20th century, Women and literature--History--20th century, Authorship--Sex differences, Women authors--Interviews.

BACKTALK WOMEN WRITERS SPEAK OUT INTERVIEWS BY DONNA PERRY RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY

Page iv Portions of the Pat Barker interview appeared in "Going Home Again: An Interview with Pat Barker," The Literary Review, 34. 2 (Winter 1991), 235-244. The Jamaica Kincaid interview first appeared, in a slightly different form, in Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New American Library, 1990), 492-509. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Backtalk: women writers speak out / interviews by Donna Perry. p. cm. ISBN 0-8135-1991-8 1. Women authors, American-20th century-Interviews. 2. Women and literature-United States-History-20th century. 3. Women and literature-History-20th century. 4. Women authors-20th century- Interviews. 5. Authorship-Sex differences. I. Perry, Donna Marie, 1946 PS151.H65 1993 810.9'9287-dc20 92-41201 CIP British Cataloging-in-Publication information available Copyright 1993 by Donna Perry All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America

Page v For Neill and in memory of my parents, Elizabeth Meagher Perry and John Perry, who always listened

Page vii CONTENTS PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii PAULA GUNN ALLEN 1 GLORIA ANZALDUA 19 PAT BARKER 43 MARY BECKETT 63 ROSARIO FERR 83 VIVIAN GORNICK 105 JAMAICA KINCAID 127 BARBARA KINGSOLVER 143 MAXINE HONG KINGSTON 171 VALERIE MINER 195 GLORIA NAYLOR 217 ILIS NI DHUIBHNE 245 JOAN RILEY 261 JOANNA RUSS 287 LESLIE MARMON SILKO 313

Page ix PREFACE Books of interviews with women writers have proliferated since the early 1980s, but most focus on white women who come from and write about the middle class. These collections tend to stress aesthetic rather than political or social concerns, limiting themselves to questions about individual texts, the creative process, and literary influences. Interviewers rarely ask writers to talk about such topics as the politics of publishing or sexism in book reviewing. And they usually ignore or downplay volatile issues-racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, for example-even when these are central to understanding the writers' works. There have been exceptions. Collections that have dealt exclusively with people of color, such as Claudia Tate's important early work, Black Women Writers at Work (Continuum, 1983), or Laura Coltelli's Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak (University of Nebraska Press, 1992), in which she interviews women and men, blend aesthetic and political concerns throughout. Collections pairing writers from similar backgrounds in a discussion about literature, for instance, Writing Lives: Conversations between Women Writers (Virago, 1988), edited by Mary Chamberlain, also manage to put the individual writers' works in a larger political and social context. Inspired by these good examples, I decided to interview a diverse group of successful women writers about their lives, their work, their politics, and the ways these interrelate. My criteria for choosing writers to interview were straightforward. I wanted to talk with women of different

Page x racial, ethnic, class, and religious backgrounds, sexual orientations, and countries of origin. I looked for authors who were committed to writing about people, especially women, who had traditionally been marginalized, stereotyped, or ignored in literature. I sought women who had themselves felt silenced but who had published at least three or four books. I decided to include authors of nonfiction as well as poetry and fiction, since memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, essays, and anthologies also break silences. I interviewed writers who were passionate about their work.

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