A Narrative Compass: Stories That Guide Women's Lives

Contents

Introduction      ix     [sample]
Roberta Seelinger Trites and Betsy Hearne

Part 1: Finding the Compass

The Tea Fragrance Chamber      1     [sample]
Rania Huntington

Academic Grief: Journeys with Little Women     8     [sample]
Roberta Seelinger Trites

Girl: Stories on the Way to Feminism      19     [sample]
Kimberly J. Lau

A Language Journey    31     [sample]
Ofelia Zepeda

A Thousand and One Tales      39     [sample]
Maria Tatar

A Passage to, and from, India      47     [sample]
Wendy Doniger

Part 2: Literary and Critical Directions

Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void: Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and the Teachings of Don Juan      57     [sample]
Bonnie Glass-Coffin

Wet Work and Dry Work: Notes from a Lacanian Mother      68     [sample]
Karen Coats

The Pleasures of Dreaming: How L.M. Montgomery Shaped My Lifeworlds      80     [sample]
Ebony Thomas

Her Story and History: Journeys with Laura Ingalls Wilder      96     [sample]
Pam Riney-Kehrberg

A Moral Compass: Dorothy Sterling's Mary Jane      102     [sample]
Deyonne Bryant

Uniquely Qualified      115     [sample]
Ann Hendricks

Part 3: Escaping Home, Finding Home

Wondering with Alice      125     [sample]
Beverly Lyon Clark

Romancing the Muse of History: The Secret Garden, Mary Lennox, and Me      131     [sample]
Christine Jenkins

The Ghost in the Borrowed Story: A Mystery in Twenty Chapters      141     [sample]
Cindy Christiansen

Generations of Melodrama: A Cinderella Story      156     [sample]
Claudia Quintero Ulloa

My Journey Home      170     [sample]
Minjie Chen

Birth Maps      180     [sample]
Joanna Hearne

Bringing the Story Home: A Journey with Beauty & the Beast      194     [sample]
Betsy Hearne

Contributors      213

Index      217