Quilt culture
Subtitle: tracing the pattern
By: edited by Cheryl B. Torsney and Judy Elsley.
Contributors: Torsney, Cheryl B.; Elsley, Judy, 1952-
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Quilts in literature.; Women -- United States -- Social life and customs.; Women and literature -- United States.; Quilting.; Quilts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: Everyday use / Cheryl B. Torsney; title: A history reduc'd into patches / Audrey Bilger; title: Reading lessons / Anne L. Bower; title: Sisters' choices / Margot Anne Kelley; title: The color purple and the poetics of fragmentation / Judy Elsley; title: Fabricating a reading of Toni Morrison's Beloved as a quilt of memory and identity / Cathy Peppers; title: Butor's scissor marks / Page R. Laws; title: Census, consensus, and the commodification of form / Van E. Hillard; title: Quilt-value and the Marxist theory of value / Nora Ruth Roberts; title: A quilt is an art object when it stands up like a man / Susan E. Bernick; title: Preserving the social fabric / Susan Behuniak-Long.