Women of the Century: Thirty Modern Short Stories Regina Barreca, Editor St. Martin's Press January 1993 Paperback ISBN#: 0312075235 Purchase this text online at Amazon.com Including works by Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bowen, Alice Childress, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Walker, and Louise Erdrich, this provocative collection affirms the scope and power of women as story-tellers. Growing from a belief that women have different stories to tell and different modes of 'telling' than do their male counterparts, Women of the Century traces what we might call our narrative matrilineage. While reflecting worldviews particular to the woman writer, Barreca's collection offers insights and pleasures to male and female readers alike. ~These stories are successful attempts by the writers to broaden the sense of self, to reach an unrecorded past, to extend the limits of the possible, and to escape the bonds imposed by the routine allotted to women in society. With their blessing, and informed by their paradoxically wise wickedness and reassuring distrust of the world, we are permitted to review, revise, and renew our lives. --Regina Barreca, Introduction Purchase this text online at Amazon.com