Reviews

"An exciting collection which places superb turn-of-the-century women writers in the context of pioneering artists, a long overdue revisionary perspective."--Roseanne Hoefel, Alma College
"A worthy and important contribution to Women's Studies."--June Sochen, Northeastern Illinois University
"Fills a gap; places black women writers in context of American women's literary history."--Fahamisha Patricia Brown, Boston College
"Thanks to a glorious wealth of historical and biographical detail, Elizabeth Ammons's new book proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what many had only hoped was true: that the history of American women's writing, created by Native American, African American, Asian American, Jewish American, and white Christian American authors, comprises one diverse and variegated body of work, a body all too often suppressed, effaced, erased, but here celebrated for its
richness, its suffering, and its triumph."--American Literature
"Brilliant....This is a very important book whose influence will be felt for a long time. It should be read by all serious teachers and scholars of the period and should have a prominent place in advanced literature courses. I recommend it highly."--Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"An exciting collection which places superb turn-of-the-century women writers in the context of pioneering artists, a long overdue revisionary perspective."--Roseanne Hoefel, Alma College
"A worthy and important contribution to Women's Studies."--June Sochen, Northeastern Illinois University
"Fills a gap; places black women writers in context of American women's literary history."--Fahamisha Patricia Brown, Boston College
"Thanks to a glorious wealth of historical and biographical detail, Elizabeth Ammons's new book proves beyond a shadow of a doubt what many had only hoped was true: that the history of American women's writing, created by Native American, African American, Asian American, Jewish American, and white Christian American authors, comprises one diverse and variegated body of work, a body all too often suppressed, effaced, erased, but here celebrated for its
richness, its suffering, and its triumph."--American Literature
"Brilliant....This is a very important book whose influence will be felt for a long time. It should be read by all serious teachers and scholars of the period and should have a prominent place in advanced literature courses. I recommend it highly."--Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"Conflicting Stories is brilliant in its conception and revolutionary in its method. By grouping women writers previously separated and looking at them historically, Ammons identifies the pioneer generation of American women writers who aspired to be artists; by negotiating their conflicts that cut across the lines of race, class, culture, and ethnicity, she issues a challenge for experimentation in criticism that is as liberating as it is
radical."--Review
"Ammons provides a rich compendium of information and insight in this study of American women's texts written between the 1880s and the 1930s....Thoroughly interesting and solidly based, speaking with a modestly objective voice, Ammons's study becomes one of the most radical and revisionist views of a key time in American literature."--Studies in Short Fiction
"A useful and at times pioneering analysis....Strongly recommended for undergraduate and graduate collections."--Choice
"Elizabeth Ammon's new book, Conflicting Stories will undoubtedly and deservedly take its place beside other important works of feminist criticism....Conflicting Stories is a particularly welcome addition to feminist literary criticism because of its multicultural perspective that provides readers access to the lives and works of many minority women writing in America at the turn of the century."--Modern Fiction Studies
"Ammons provides in this book...challenging, original, and stimulating insights."--Signs
"...impressively informed and innovative....I suggest that we all read Conflicting Stories."--Studies in the Novel