Introduction
Dale M. Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry
1. The Dilemmas of a Feminine Dialogic
Diane Price Herndl
2. Voices from the Margin: Big Ladies and Others
Suzanne Kehde
3. Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics
Patrick D. Murphy
4. Irigarayan Dialogism: Play and Powerplay
Gail M. Schwab
5. Critical Imperialism and Renaissance Drama: The Case of The Roaring Girl
Deborah Jacobs
6. Style and Power
Josephine Donovan
7. Radical Writing
Peter Hitchcock
8. A Quote of Many Colors: Women and Masquerade in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Parody Novels
Jaye Berman
9. "Witness [to] the Suffering of Women": Poverty and Sexual Transgression in Meridel Le Sueur's Women on the Breadlines
Susan Sipple
10. The Central Nervous System of America: The Writer As/In the Crowd of Joyce Carol Oates Wonderland
Brenda O. Daly
11. Language and Gender in Transit: Feminist Extensions of Bakhtin
Sheryl Stevenson
12. Subject, Voice, and Women in Some Contemporary Black American Women's Writing
Mary O'Connor
13. Problems of Gordimer's Poetics: Dialogue in Burger's Daughter
Louise Yelin
Afterword
Patricia Yaeger
Contributors
Index