Movement
A Novel
Published on 19. August 2014
202 pages
978-1-4976-1231-0 (ISBN)
Description
This novel in stories tracks ten years in the life of Susan, a journalist and feminist, during a time of transition in America
Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan's story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality.
Written with a deep understanding of activism, Miner's novelistic retrospective of the feminist movement questions everything from marriage to Marxism. This fascinating work gives a true and unflinching view of what it means to be a woman in the world.
Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan's story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality.
Written with a deep understanding of activism, Miner's novelistic retrospective of the feminist movement questions everything from marriage to Marxism. This fascinating work gives a true and unflinching view of what it means to be a woman in the world.
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Person
Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner's work has appeared inthe
Georgia Review,
TriQuarterly,
Salmagundi,
New Letters,
Ploughshares, the
Village Voice,
Prairie Schooner, the
Gettysburg Review, the
Times Literary Supplement, the
Women's Review of Books, the
Nation,and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Dutch. She has won fellowships and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website iswww.valerieminer.com.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Susan Griffin
- Foreword
- Movement
- Joan Crawford Revival
- Maple Leaf or Beaver
- The Common Stinkweed
- In the Company of Long-Distance Peace Marchers
- Dark Midnight
- The Right Hand on the Day of Judgment
- Newsworthy
- Stray
- Someone Else's Baby
- Single Exposure
- Cultured Green
- Cooperative
- Love/Love
- Other Voices
- Aunt Victoria
- Aerogramme
- One of Them
- Feel No Evil
- Mrs. Delaney's Dollar
- Side/Stroke
- Well Past the Weird Hour
- Novena
- The Green Loudspeaker
- Afterlife
- Sisterhood
- Rondo
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
