Table of Contents for
Stranger at the Door: Writers and the Act of Writing by Kristjana Gunnars

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. The Art of Solitude

2. The Diasporic Imagination: Writers’ Perspectives

3. The Home and the Artist

4. Transcultural Appropriation: Problems and Perspectives

5. Theory and Fiction: The Mixed Bag of Postmodern Writing

6. Writing and Silence: The Unteachable Mystery of Words

7. On Writing Short Books

8. Poetry and the Idea of Home

Notes

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