"20th-Century American Women Novelists".

I'd go with Stein, Le Guin and Didion.

>>7345537
Stein, Buck and Didion.

>>7345537
Joan Didion
Pearl Buck
Zora Neal Hurston

Why the fuck did you nominate The Joy Luck Club?

>>7345570
I didn't senpai. This is all a decree down from the professor and powers that be.
What about the one I should nominate to be removed from the options? (that question goes out to everyone

>>7345584
Le Guin
Cather
Wharton

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>>7346246
Didn't mean to quote

top
1. Le Guin
2. Didion
3. Silko

bottom
1. Proulx
2. Tan
3. Moore

Just got home senpai. Thanks for the continuing help.
So far I'm getting a top four consensus of
Stein
Buck
Didion
Le Guin
Should I go for the best 3 out of 4 of these? If so which are they and in what order should I rank them?

Can I get some more nominations for the worst book of this list that I should vote to cast aside? Someone said They Joy Luck Club and I agree that does look pretty insufferable.

>>7345537
>No Flannery O'Connor
>No Lydia Davis


All of the novels listed are fucking garbage anon, when you sum up 20th century American female novelists like that you can see why women are so fucking butthurt about MUH patriarchy, their contributions are fucking garbage and they're assblasted about it, but maybe if they wrote about something other than MUH oppression they would be taken more seriously, Flannery is a perfect example of that, it's amazing she isn't on that list.

>>7346528
Just to add to this, vote for Bastard out of Carolina.

>>7346528
Which one of these would you be most inclined to tell me to get rid of though? Like I said I'm leaning towards The Joy Luck Club.

I'm pretty sure O'Connor is one of the 7 books our Professor assigned us already and that's why she's note on the voting list senpai.

In general: Other than Based mom Flannery O'Connor who would you really hold up as a lit icon?

>>7346568
not*

This thread looks like a shitfest. Oh well hopefully OP gets through with whatever prevails and more posters hop in on this.

>>7346410
Didion is incredibly trivial and self absorbed from what I've read. Only read her if you enjoy celebrity gossip and "lol drugs man."

Stein is a pillar of modernist poetry, so I wouldn't skip her in any survey of literature. Le Guin isn't incredibly significant, but that novel in particular is great.

>>7345537
LeGuin
Allison
Hurston

>>7346824
So for Didion is she something along the lines of the beats or counter-culture? Is it edgy in that sense or is it more of a Catcher in the Rye pathetic loner novel?

I'm getting more votes for Allison's Bastard out of Carolina but I'm still waiting for more data to pick top 3 and then figure out what order I'd like them in.

I still have very little information as to which book have to struck from the list.

>>7346824
>>7346897
I haven't read Play it As it Lays - I know Didion as a nonfiction essayist (Slouching Toward Bethlehem is a fantastic collection) and I wouldn't call her self-absorbed at all. Introspective and insightful for sure, I would say the best thing to compare it to would be Hunter S. Thompson's less political writings or David Foster Wallace's nonfiction (which is his best stuff imo).

>>7346926
Play it As it Lays seems like a really tripped out work that could be very magical in its own sense but I feel like I could see myself getting frustrated at such a pathetic protagonist.

>>7346897
>I still have very little information as to which book have to struck from the list.

I haven't read many of the other ones but I hated The Color Purple.

Le Guin I imagine would be a nice change of pace on a literature course, and she is legitimately a great writer. I have heard that Erdrich is one of the best living American authors so I'd be interested in reading her in your place. And Stein might benefit more from being studied in a classroom environment than the others on the list.

Hey F A M let's rescue this thread. I don't know why 4chan has been editing words you type in lately either.

>>7345537
Where the FUCK is Carson McCullers?

Bump. This was a good thread for a while.

>>7348677
Don't ask me F A M, ask my professor desu.

>>7348680
I typed in T B H. Why the frick is 4chan changing our posts?!?

>>7348682
keks

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>>7345537
>Women
>literature

>>7348690
I don't get why some people feel so smug about their ignorance to be frank with you, family.

>>7348690
>Neanderthal
>You

>>7350399
do you have a bf?

>>7351112
I'm a male who does not have a boyfriend, to be perfectly honest with you family.

>>7350399
Being related to the neanderthals is good, the greatest peoples to ever exist (i.e. Europeans) have the very highest percentage of neanderthal DNA while sub-saharan negroes have none.

Stein
Allison
Hurston

>having a diversity list without Toni Cade Bambara

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>>7351925
>Toni Cade Bambara
>Social Activist
"I would prefer not to", to be perfectly frank and honest with you family.

>>7351986
your lossy format.

>>7351996
my lossy format?

>>7345537
Stein
Wharton or LeGuin
Fitzgerald

Eliminate Walker

>>7353788
This guy has a good idea.