Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women, Part I Kathe Callahan ” “Statue of Liberty

” “Statue of Liberty

and conflicts of interest corroding our civic life

Designed to meet the needs of classroom teachers and teacher candidates in social studies

One can only marvel at the sweep of her imagination her steadfast allegiance to the downtrodden whether out in the wider world or watching from an inner-city balcony at every stage of the passage

whether of the island or the diaspora

Big, Ambitious Novels by Twenty-First-Century Women, Part I Kathe Callahan ” “Statue of LibertyIn a 2000 review of Zadie Smith's White Teeth, critic James Wood dismissed the genre of "big, ambitious novels" which he claimed were too dense with information to express any authentic feeling as "hysterical realism." The contributors to these special issues take Wood's derisive claims as a rallying cry to examine encyclopedic or maximalist novels by women published in the past two decades, including works by Emil Ferris, Valeria Luiselli, Ruth