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In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research.
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Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research, from Little House on the Prairie to Little Women, from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Nancy Drew, Mary Jane, and even the Chinese memoir Jottings from the Transcendant's Abode at Mt. Youtai. Telling the "story of her story" leads each of the essayists to insights about her own approach to studying narratives and to a deeper, often surprising, understanding of the power of imagination.
Contributors are Deyonne Bryant, Minjie Chen, Cindy L. Christiansen, Beverly Lyon Clark, Karen Coats, Wendy Doniger, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Betsy Hearne, Joanna Hearne, Ann Hendricks, Rania Huntington, Christine Jenkins, Kimberly Lau, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Maria Tatar, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Roberta Seelinger Trites, Claudia Quintero Ulloa, and Ofelia Zepeda.
Contents
Introduction ix ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES AND BETSY HEARNE
PART 1. FINDING THE COMPASS
1. The Tea Fragrance Chamber 1 RANIA HUNTINGTON 2. Academic Grief: Journeys with Little Women 8 ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES 3. Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism 19 KIMBERLY J. LAU 4. A Language Journey 31 OFELIA ZEPEDA 5. A Thousand and One Tales 39 MARIA TATAR 6. A Passage to, and from, India 47 WENDY DONIGER
PART 2. LITERARY AND CRITICAL DIRECTIONS
7. Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void: Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and The Teachings of Don Juan 57 BONNIE GLASS-COFFIN 8. Wet Work and Dry Work: Notes from a Lacanian Mother 68 KAREN COATS 9. The Pleasures of Dreaming: How L. M. Montgomery Shaped My Lifeworlds 80 EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS 10. Her Story and History: Journeys with Laura Ingalls Wilder 96 PAMELA RINEY-KEHRBERG 11. A Moral Compass: Dorothy Sterling's Mary Jane 102 DEYONNE BRYANT 12. Uniquely Qualified 115 ANN HENDRICKS
PART 3. ESCAPING HOME, FINDING HOME
13. Wondering with Alice 125 BEVERLY LYON CLARK 14. Romancing the Muse of History: The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, and Me 131 CHRISTINE A. JENKINS 15. The Ghost in the Borrowed Story: A Mystery in Twenty Chapters 141 CINDY L. CHRISTIANSEN 16. Generations of Melodrama: A Cinderella Story 156 CLAUDIA QUINTERO ULLOA 17. My Journey Home 170 MINJIE CHEN 18. Birth Maps 180 JOANNA HEARNE 19. Bringing the Story Home: A Journey with Beauty and the Beast 194 BETSY HEARNE Contributors 213
Index 217