Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture

Chapter 1 Introduction: Navigating Women’s Friendships into the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 2 Entangled Roots: “Old Friends” Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki ’s All Over Creation All Over Creation

Chapter 3 The Gothic’s Creation of Women’s Friendship in Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson ’s The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House

Chapter 4 Political Progress and Social Stall: Groupthink, Smart Talk, and Mary McCarthy Mary McCarthy ’s Friendship Novel

Chapter 5 Girlfriend Epistemology in Alice Walker Alice Walker ’s The Color Purple The Color Purple

Chapter 6 “We Will Work Together”: Interclass Women’s Collabships in Progressive Era Novels

Chapter 7 Fleur’s Kinship, Pauline’s Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich Erdrich, Louise ’s Tracks Tracks

Chapter 8 “What Obligation Do I Have Toward Her?”: College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman Hangsaman and The Bell Jar The Bell Jar

Chapter 9 “The Tenderness of One Woman for Another”: Female Friendship and Revolt in the Twentieth-Century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Chapter 10 “Feeling You Near”: Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe ’s Friendship with Mary Callery Mary Callery

Chapter 11 “These Sweet Trees”: Alice Walker Alice Walker , June Jordan June Jordan , and Womanist Friendship

Chapter 12 Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga Cherríe Moraga ’s Friendship Friendship , Falling Out, and Forgiveness

Chapter 13 Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady Carolyn Cassady ’s Off the Road

Chapter 14 “I Prefer to Think That History Made Her:” Exploring the Relationship Between Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Edwina Kruse Edwina Kruse Through This Lofty Oak This Lofty Oak