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Margaret Atwood
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 135 libraries worldwide Margaret Atwood talks with Hermione Lee about themes of women "breaking out," literature informed by fairy tales, visual imagery as inspiration, mythology in contemporary literature, comparing the short story with the novel, autobiography as source material, writing as a woman from the male point of view, and using humor.
Toni Morrison with A.S. Byatt
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3 editions published between 1988 and 1989 in English and held by 90 libraries worldwide Toni Morrison has a discussiion with A.S. Byatt, on defining oneself as a writer, the visual as starting point of the novel, Black American literature, comparing spoken with written language, terraine of Black women novelists, the political in writing, and characterisation and style.
Nadine Gordimer
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 85 libraries worldwide Discusses finding a language to describe Africa's landscapes, how to end a book, comparing the novel with the short story, writing at home versus writing in exile, motives for writing a political novel, and South African black consciousness movement.
Gloria Naylor
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 80 libraries worldwide Naylor discusses her life and writings, especially as she attempts to represent the experiences of Black women in America.
Salman Rushdie
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide A discussion which covers background to The Satanic verses; themes of divided selves; the irony of an Indian being viewed as representative of English culture; the nature of the city as metaphor; writing dialogue; writing from the experience of duality of uprootedness; and Black voices "describing back" in their literature.
Ben Okri
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2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 46 libraries worldwide A discussion which covers socialist realism in the African novel; use of ghosts as representations of nightmares; second generation of African writers and their relationship with the first; using style as distancing factor from experience; differences in language between the novel and the short story; and using literature to face wounds.
Edward Said with Salman Rushdie
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1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 45 libraries worldwide Edward Said talks with Salman Rushdie about his concerns regarding Palestinian identity and experience.
Isabel Allende, with Marina Warner
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1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 41 libraries worldwide Isabel Allende, niece of the late President Salvador Allende of Chile, talks about her life and work as a writer.
Anthony Burgess
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 36 libraries worldwide Anthony Burgess talks with A.S. Byatt about quarrelling with the Catholic God, Catholicism as a culture, "evil" as a theological reality, role of language in A clockwork orange, the English novel and Catholicism, choosing a title, background to Earthly powers, the novel as text, and influence of music on structure.
Mongane Serote with Edward Blishen
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2 editions published between 1986 and 1989 in English and held by 34 libraries worldwide Mongane Serote, the South African poet, talks to Edward Blishen about the role of the artist in the restricted society of black South Africa.
Edward Said
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2 editions published between 1986 and 1989 in English and held by 33 libraries worldwide Edward Said talks with Salman Rushdie about his concerns regarding Palestinian identity and experience.
Joyce Carol Oates, with Hermione Lee
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1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide Oates discusses her work along with her novel, American appetites, with writer and critic Hermione Lee.
Marilyn French
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 29 libraries worldwide Interview with feminist novelist.
Janice Shinebourne with Susheila Nasta ; Pt. II, Beryl Gilroy
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1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 28 libraries worldwide Two Caribbean women authors talk about their lives and their work.
Fay Weldon, with Valerie Grove
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2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 28 libraries worldwide Fay Weldon talks about her work with Valerie Grove, and in particular her novel Leader of the band.
Robertson Davies
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide Davies talks about being Canadian, the journalist's way of looking at life, theatrical qualities of books, the nature of compassion, immigrants' impact on culture, themes of fraud, forgery and imposture, and illustion and deception in art.
Marge Piercy
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1 edition published in 1987 in English and held by 26 libraries worldwide Interview with Feminist poet-novelist.
Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation
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2 editions published between 1986 and 1989 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide Kazuo Ishiguro talks about growing up as a Japanese boy in an English culture, growing up in the shadow of the atom bomb, the need for critical encouragement, the moral crisis of post-war Japan, the role of research codes which govern modern Japanese fiction, using English to write about Japanese worlds and creating authentic fictional worlds.
Marina Warner
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 21 libraries worldwide Marina Warner speaks with Lisa Appignanesi about her life as a writer, historian and critic. Some of the topics they discuss are women and virginity, influences of Catholicism, gender and separation, women's history within fairy tales and a comparison of history and fiction.
John Updike in conversation with Claire Tomalin
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1 edition published in 1989 in English and held by 20 libraries worldwide John Updike discusses his life and work with writer Claire Tomalin. Topics include: writing about sex, Updike as chronicler of the New World, personal and domestic themes, small town life as the site of drama, and God. more
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African American women authors African American women novelists African literature Allende, Isabel Atwood, Margaret,--1939- Authors Authors, American Authors, Canadian Authors, Chilean Authors, English Authors, Japanese Authors, Nigerian Authorship--Study and teaching Burgess, Anthony,--1917-1993 Creative writing Criticism, interpretation, etc. Davies, Robertson,--1913-1995 English language--Rhetoric English literature Feminism Feminism and literature Fiction--Authorship French, Marilyn,--1929-2009 Gilroy, Beryl God Gordimer, Nadine Interviews Ishiguro, Kazuo,--1954- Literature Morrison, Toni Naylor, Gloria Novelists, American Novelists, South African Oates, Joyce Carol,--1938- Okri, Ben Palestinian Arabs Piercy, Marge Rushdie, Salman Said, Edward W Satanic verses (Rushdie, Salman) Serote, Mongane Wally,--1944- Shinebourne, Janice South Africa South African literature (English) United States Updike, John Warner, Marina,--1946- Weldon, Fay Women authors, American Women authors, English
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