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Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America is a 2018 short story, non-fiction anthology edited by American author Amy Reed.
Roar is a 2018 short story collection written by Cecelia Ahern.Each story is a fable wherein Ahern pulls from contemporary gender dynamics to introduce a struggling woman and literalizes common clichés with magical realism, and by the end of the tale, the protagonist is empowered by a lesson or realization that allows them to overcome her oppression.
Hurston was able to write feminist pieces that included novels, short stories, journals, and letters. This was more accessible and approachable for women. [6] Hurston describes that women were denied equal opportunities and abused by men in "Sweat". The story portrays Delia as being as strong and as independent as a woman can be in her ...
This category includes short stories dealing with feminist issues. Pages in category "Feminist short stories" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Good Night Stories has sold over one million copies, and has been translated into more than 47 languages. [5] They have received praise for being an alternative to the stereotypical portrayal of girls and women in fiction (such as the Disney Princess), or books about heroes which primarily focus on male protagonists. It focuses on telling young ...
Through the O'Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University, I spent 15 months capturing life at Greentree, a low-income housing complex that sits on 14 acres on Milwaukee ...
Published in 1991, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-two short stories that form a collage of narrative techniques, each serving to engage and affect the reader in a different way. Cisneros alternates between first person, third person, and stream-of-consciousness narrative modes, and ranges from brief ...
A collection of women’s short stories Women Writing: Translations also won a State Literary Award in 2002. Her translation of two novels by the novelist Gunadasa Amarasekara, Out of the Darkness, won the 2003 Gratiaen Prize and a State Literary Award in 2004. She also writes her own fiction.