| Contents |
Introduction : Roberta Seelinger Trites and Betsy Hearne -- Part 1. Finding the compass : The tea fragrance chamber / Rania Huntington -- Academic grief: journeys with Little women / Roberta Seelinger Trites -- Girl: stories on the way to feminism / Kimberly Lau -- A language journey / Ofelia Zepeda -- A thousand and one tales / Maria Tatar -- A passage to, and from, India / Wendy Doniger -- Part 2. Literary and critical directions : Balancing on interpretive fences or leaping into the void: reconciling myself with Castaneda and The teachings of Don Juan / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Wet work and dry work: notes from a Lacanian mother / Karen Coats -- The pleasures of dreaming: how L. M. Montgomery shaped my lifeworlds / Ebony Elizabeth Thomas -- Her story and history: journeys with Laura Ingalls Wilder / Pamela Riney-Kehrberg -- A moral compass: Dorothy Sterling's Mary Jane / Deyonne Bryant -- Uniquely qualified / Ann Hendricks -- Part 3. Escaping home, finding home : Wondering with Alice / Beverly Lyon Clark -- Romancing the muse of history: The secret garden, Mary Lennox, and me / Christine Jenkins -- The ghost in the borrowed story: a mystery in twenty chapters / Cindy L. Christiansen -- Generations of melodrama: a Cinderella story / Claudia Quintero Ulloa -- My journey home / Minjie Chen -- Birth maps / Joanna Hearne -- Bringing the story home: a journey with Beauty and the beast / Betsy Hearne. |
| Abstract |
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.--From publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008034992 |
| ISBN | 9780252034077 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0252034074 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780252076114 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0252076117 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
