Abstract
An eclectic montage of literary analysis, autobiography, and readerresponse, taking the form of personal anecdotes and autonomousessays, The Woman in the Red Dress takes the reader on a journeyin which Minrose C. Gwin analyzes both metaphoric andphysical personal space. As Gwin defines it, space is "not an entitythat contains something else but [is] the swirl of social relationsand productions in particular locations, whether these locationsbe material, cultural, or even psychological" (6). The purpose ofGwin's work, as she says, perhaps too repetitively is: "to dramatizetextual encounters in which narrative, space, and gender inscribethemselves on one another and their readers" (38). The title ofthis volume refers to the first work Gwin discusses in her introduction:Native American poet Joy Harjo's poem, "Deer Dancer,"about a woman in a stained red dress who dances naked on a bar,changing not just the lives of those present, but also those who,like the narrator, merely hear the story (6-7).
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