{"product_id":"waveform-twenty-first-century-essays-by-women-paperback","title":"Waveform: Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcia Aldrich\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarcia Aldrich\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eEula Biss\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaveform \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre's boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty distinguished and diverse women writers, this carefully constructed anthology incorporates works ranging from the traditional to the experimental. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaveform \u003c\/i\u003echampions the diversity of women's approaches to the structure ofthe essay--today a site of invention and innovation, with experiments in collage, fragments, segmentation, braids, triptychs, and diptychs. Focused on these explorations of form, \u003ci\u003eWaveform\u003c\/i\u003e is not wed to a fixed theme or even to women's experiences per se. It is not driven by subject matter but highlights the writers' interaction with all manner of subject and circumstance through style, voice, tone, and structure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis anthology presents some of the women who are shaping the essay today, mapping an ever-changing landscape. It is designed to place essays recently written by women such as Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Margo Jefferson, Jaquira Diaz, and Eula Biss into the hands of those who have been waiting patiently for something they could equally claim as their own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e Marcia Aldrich, Jocelyn Bartkevicius, Chelsea Biondolillo, Eula Biss, Barrie Jean Borich, Joy Castro, Meghan Daum, Jaquira D az, Laurie Lynn Drummond, Patricia Foster, Roxane Gay, Leslie Jamison, Margo Jefferson, Sonja Livingston, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Brenda Miller, Michele Morano, Kyoko Mori, Bich Minh Nguyen, Adriana Paramo, Jericho Parms, Torrey Peters, Kristen Radtke, Wendy Rawlings, Cheryl Strayed, Dana Tommasino, Sarah Valentine, Neela Vaswani, Nicole Walker, Amy Wright\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARCIA ALDRICH is a professor of English at Michigan State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGirl Rearing: Memoir of a Girlhood Gone Astray\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCompanion to an Untold Story\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia), winner of the Association of Writers \u0026amp; Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction. She is the former editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.07 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47450115571890,"sku":"9780820350219","price":35.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/976f75743f799370b562f7910d8f37e1.webp?v=1778780608","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/waveform-twenty-first-century-essays-by-women-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}