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Anthology Reviews

NOTABLE ANTHOLOGIES


While browsing we have discovered many other cultural anthologies of women's short fiction. Below is a very incomplete list of the fabulous books out there - Ed.

CONTEMPORARY NORWEGIAN WOMEN'S WRITING:An Anthology
Edited by Janet Garton
Norvik Press, paperback, 9781870041294, 256 pgs

DIAANE: Short Stories by Women From South Africa
Edited by Maggie Davey
Telegram Books, paperback, 9781846590313, 250 pgs

INSIDE AND OTHER SHORT FICTION: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
Edited by Cathy Layne
Kodansha International, hardcover, 9784770030061, 250 pgs

LET ME TELL YOU WHERE I'VE BEEN: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora
Edited by Persis M. Karim
University of Arkansas Press, paperback, 9781557288202, 428 pgs

NEW ITALIAN WOMEN: A Collection of Short Fiction
Edited by Martha King
Italica Press, paperback, 9780934977166, 218 pgs

NO MAN'S LAND: An Anthology of Modern Danish Women's Literature
Edited by Annegret Heitmann
Norvik Press, paperback, 9781870041058, 217 pgs

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTER TOMORROW: Brazilian Women's Fiction in the 20th Century
Edited and Translated by Darlene J. Sadlier
Indiana University Press, paperback, 9780253206992, 256 pgs

THE OXFORD BOOK OF STORIES BY CANADIAN WOMEN IN ENGLISH
Edited by Rosemary Sullivan
Oxford University Press, paperback, 9780195414554, 500 pgs

THE PROSE OF LIFE: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin
Edited by Benjamin Sutcliffe
University of Wisconsin Press, paperback, 9780299232047, 224 pgs

QISSAT: Short Stories by Palestinian Women
Edited by Jo Glanville
Telegram Books, paperback, 9781846590122, 200 pgs

QUESTIONING MINDS: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers
Edited and Translated by Yung‒Hee Kim
University of Hawaii Press, hardcover, 9780824833954, 233 pgs

SHAKING THE TREE: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Edited by Meri Nana‒Ama Danquah
W.W. Norton & Co., paperback, 9780393325805, 320 pgs

THE TRIBE OF DINA: A Jewish Women's Anthology
Edited by Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz, IRena Klepfisz and Esther F. Hyneman
Beacon Press, paperback, 9780807036051, 364 pgs

VIOLATIONS: Stories of Love by Latin American Women Writers
Edited by Psiche Hughes
University of Nebraska Press, paperback, 9780803273474, 187 pgs

A WOMAN'S VOICE: An Anthology of Short Stories by Ugandan Women
Edited by Mary Karooro Okurut
Femrite Publications, paperback, 9789970901036, 108 pgs.

WOMEN'S VOICES: An Anthology of Short Stories by Indonesian Women
Edited and Translated by Pamela Allen
Equinox Publishing, paperback, 9789793780474, 124 pgs

WOMEN WRITING AFRICA: The Northern Region (fourth in a series)
Edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy, and Mona Ennaji
Feminist Press, paperback, 9781558615892, 696 pgs

WOMEN WRITING ZIMBABWE
Edited by Irene Staunton
Weaver Press, paperback, 9781779220738, 144 pgs