Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2002) 72-80
Keywords:
Ozick, Cynthia.
Abstract:
Elucidates the symbolism of cloth as it represents binaries in the life of the character Rosa in Cynthia Ozick's interrelated stories "Rosa" and "The Shawl". In the former, Rosa gives birth to Magda in a concentration camp, after being raped by a German. The child is at first protected and nourished by a shawl, then killed when the shawl is taken away. Focuses on "The Shawl", in which, for Rosa the survivor, the shawl is associated with both safety and a shroud, maternal purity and sexuality, the real and the imaginary - including the image of a live teenage or adult daughter. Finally, the cloth shawl decreases in importance when the survivor regains her sexuality and, thereby, returns to life.
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