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Introduction ix ROBERTA SEELINGER TRITES AND BETSY
HEARNE
PART 1. FINDING THE COMPASS
1. The Tea Fragrance Chamber 1 RANIA HUNTINGTON 2.
Academic Grief: Journeys with Little Women 8 ROBERTA
SEELINGER TRITES 3. Girl: Stories on the Way to
Feminism 19 KIMBERLY J. LAU 4. A Language
Journey 31 OFELIA ZEPEDA 5. A Thousand and One
Tales 39 MARIA TATAR 6. A Passage to, and from,
India 47 WENDY DONIGER
PART 2. LITERARY AND CRITICAL DIRECTIONS
7. Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void:
Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and The Teachings of Don
Juan 57 BONNIE GLASS-COFFIN 8. Wet Work and Dry Work:
Notes from a Lacanian Mother 68 KAREN COATS 9. The
Pleasures of Dreaming: How L. M. Montgomery Shaped My
Lifeworlds 80 EBONY ELIZABETH THOMAS 10. Her Story and
History: Journeys with Laura Ingalls Wilder 96 PAMELA
RINEY-KEHRBERG 11. A Moral Compass: Dorothy Sterling's Mary
Jane 102 DEYONNE BRYANT 12. Uniquely
Qualified 115 ANN HENDRICKS
PART 3. ESCAPING HOME, FINDING HOME
13. Wondering with Alice 125 BEVERLY LYON CLARK 14.
Romancing the Muse of History: The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, and
Me 131 CHRISTINE A. JENKINS 15. The Ghost in the
Borrowed Story: A Mystery in Twenty Chapters 141 CINDY
L. CHRISTIANSEN 16. Generations of Melodrama: A Cinderella
Story 156 CLAUDIA QUINTERO ULLOA 17. My Journey
Home 170 MINJIE CHEN 18. Birth Maps 180
JOANNA HEARNE 19. Bringing the Story Home: A Journey with Beauty
and the Beast 194 BETSY HEARNE Contributors
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Index 217
Exploring the narratives that orient the lives of women scholars
Betsy Hearne is the former director of the Center for Children's Books and a professor emerita in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Roberta Seelinger Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University.
"Beautifully written, exquisite in conception, and full of substance." Shirley Brice Heath, author of Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms "Never before have I read such insightful and unique accounts about the power of books in determining the paths that we take in our lives. These extraordinary stories are counter-narratives to the dominant male discourse of academia, revealing how academia has benefited from stories that it has sought to exclude." Jack Zipes, author of Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre "The essayists in this thoughtful collection reflect upon the diverse stories that were influential as they journeyed toward lives of achievement. These stories about stories engage the reader and invite meditation on our own narrative compasses." Judy Nolte Temple, professor of women's studies and English, University of Arizona "This compelling and memorable collection is impressive in the range of works discussed, the diversity of voices and disciplinary perspectives, the depth of autobiograhical exploration and reflection, and the lucidity and thoughtfulness of the essays." Jan Zlotnik Schmidt, editor of Women/Writing/Teaching
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