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Writing mothers, writing daughters : tracing the maternal in stories by American Jewish women
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- Creator
- Janet Handler Burstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- 205 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252022524, 0252022521, 9780252065552, 0252065557
- OCLC
- ocm33861825
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-196) and index.
- Translating immigrant women : writing the manifold self : Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Emma Goldman, Kate Simon -- Leaving home and mother : dramas of differentiation : Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Tess Slesinger, Jo Sinclair, Marjorie Duhan Adler, Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Centering the devalued mother : re-vision and re-valuation : Rebekah Kohut, "Leah Morton", Emanie Sachs, Hana Stein, Jo Sinclair, Violet Weingarten, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Jane Lazarre, Phyllis Chesler -- Mirroring the mother : the ordeal of narcissism : Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Alix Kates Schulman, Erica Jong, Shelley Steinman List, Rosellen Brown, Camille Baum, Daphne Merkin -- Re-storying Jewish women : hearing the mothers, speaking the feminist self : Vivian Gornick, Judith Plaskow, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, Evelyn Torton Beck, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Judith Katz, Blu Greenberg, Nessa Rapaport, E.M. Broner, Kim Chernin
Subjects
- American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Jewish women in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.