Women Writing Cloth : Lexington Books : 9781498525855 : 1498525857 : 09 Dec 2015 : Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginaryperforms a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork, resourcefulness, and mobility. Refracted through the lens of women's migratory experiences vis-à-vis cloth-working aesthetics, Women Writing Cloth examines varied aspects of sewing?embroidering, quilting, and rebozo-making?as textual signifiers of mobility and preservation. Through authorial innovation,women's handwork constitutes a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and a distrust of the self. Women Writing Cloth argues that literary, cloth-w