[1] Le Grand Robert de la Langue Français. Volume II. Paris: 1995, pg. 173. (bricolage: work in which the technique is improvised, adapted to the materials and to the circumstances - my translation).

2 Leví-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. University of Chicago Press. Chicago:

1962, pg. 17.

3 ibid., pg. 35.

4 Rodenas, Adriana Méndez. "Tradition and Women's Writing: Towards a Poetics of Difference". Engendering the Word. ed. Temma F. Berg. University of Illinois Press. Chicago: 1989, pg. 33.

5 ibid., pg. 36.

6 ibid., pg. 37.

7 ibid., pg. 31

8 ibid., pg. 37.

9 Thoreau, Henry David. Walden. ed. William Rossi. W.W. Norton & Co. New York: 1992, pg. 28.

10 ibid., pg. 29

11 ibid., pg. 30.

12 Rodenas, pg. 36.

13 Leví-Strauss, pg. 33, my emphasis.

14 Rodenas, pg. 34.

15 Diehl, Joanne. Women Poets and the American Sublime. Indiana University Press. Bloomington: 1990, pg. 1.

16 Ammons, Elizabeth. "Stowe's Dream of the Mother Savior". New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge University Press. New York: 1986, pg. 156.

17 Rodenas, pg. 33.

18 ibid., pg. 41.

19 ibid., pg. 42.

20 Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own. Princeton University Press. Princeton: 1977, pg. 14.

21 Rodenas, pg. 29.

22 Leví-Strauss, pg. 21.

23 Diehl, pg. 3.

24 Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. Double Day Publishing Company. New York: 1977, pg. 9).

25 ibid., pg. 44.

26 ibid., pg. 44.

27 ibid., pg. 59.

28 ibid., pg. 48.

29 ibid., pg. 48.

30 ibid., pg. 8.

31 ibid., pg. 8.

32 Yellin, Jean Fagan. "Doing It Herself". New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge University Press. New York: 1986, pg. 101.

33 ibid., pg. 86.

34 Ammons, pg. 159.

35 ibid., pg. 159.

36 Graulich, Melody. "Speaking Across Boundaries and Sharing the Loss of a Child". Private Voices, Public Lives. ed. Nancy Owen Nelson. University of North Texas Press. Texas: 1995, pg. 168.

37 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. ed. Elizabeth Ammons. W.W. Norton & Co. New York: 1994, pg. 43.

38 Rodenas, pg. 33.

39 Graulich, pg. 171.

40 Ammons, pg. 162.

41 ibid., pg. 162.

42 ibid., pg. 162.

43 Stowe, pg. 127.

44 ibid., pg. 240.

45 Ammons, pg. 164.

46 Stowe, pg. 28.

47 ibid., pg. 15.

48 ibid., pg. 195.

49 ibid., pg. 195.

50 ibid., pg. 194.

51 ibid., pg. 323.

52 ibid., pg. 323.

53 ibid., pg. 323.

54 Yellin, pg. 91.

55 Ammons, pg. 167.

56 Rich, Adrienne. Of Woman Born. W.W. Norton & Co. New York: 1986, pg. 67.

57 Ammons, pg. 156.

58 Showalter, Elaine. "Towards a Feminist Poetics". Essentials of the Theory of Fiction. ed. Michael Hoffman and Patrick Murphy. Duke University Press. Durham: 1988, pg. 389.

59 ibid., pg. 388.