ISBN:
087413899X
Language:
English
Pages:
260 S.
,
25 cm
Year of publication:
2005
DDC:
810.9/9287/089924
Keywords:
American literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
American literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
Judaism and literature History 20th century
;
Women and literature History 20th century
;
American literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
American literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Jewish women Intellectual life
;
Identity (Psychology) in literature
;
Group identity in literature
;
Jewish women in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
American literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
Judaism and literature United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
Women and literature United States
;
History
;
20th century
;
American literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
American literature 20th century
;
History and criticism
;
Jewish women United States
;
Intellectual life
;
Identity Psychology in literature
;
Group identity in literature
;
Jewish women in literature
;
Jews in literature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Juden
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois RubinCynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden -- Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters / Lois Rubin -- Close to the bone : the fiction of Nora Gold / Ruth Panofsky -- Tova Reich's fiction : perspectives on mothering / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum -- Wayfinding : (re)constructing Jewish identity in Mazel and Lovingkindness / Melanie Levinson -- Seasons of our (dis)content, or, Orthodox women in Walden : Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls / Gloria L. Cronin -- Revising the golem, revisiting Frankenstein : cultural negotiations in Ozick's The Puttermesser papers and Piercy's He, she and it / Ruth Bienstock Anolik -- A feminist interpretation of Jewish history and spirituality : collision and fusion in Marge Piercy's later poetry and fiction / S. Lillian Kramer -- A mensh fights back in Joanne Greenberg's fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Split worlds and intersecting metaphors : representations of Jewish and lesbian identity in the works of Irena Klepfisz / Monica Bachmann -- An old discussion about feminism and Judaism : faith and renewal in Grace Paley's short fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Starhawk : dreaming a post-feminist, post-Jewish world / Irene C. Goldman-Price.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois Rubin -- Cynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden -- Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters / Lois Rubin -- Close to the bone : the fiction of Nora Gold / Ruth Panofsky -- Tova Reich's fiction : perspectives on mothering / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum -- Wayfinding : (re)constructing Jewish identity in Mazel and Lovingkindness / Melanie Levinson -- Seasons of our (dis)content, or, Orthodox women in Walden : Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls / Gloria L. Cronin -- Revising the golem, revisiting Frankenstein : cultural negotiations in Ozick's The Puttermesser papers and Piercy's He, she and it / Ruth Bienstock Anolik -- A feminist interpretation of Jewish history and spirituality : collision and fusion in Marge Piercy's later poetry and fiction / S. Lillian Kramer -- A mensh fights back in Joanne Greenberg's fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Split worlds and intersecting metaphors : representations of Jewish and lesbian identity in the works of Irena Klepfisz / Monica Bachmann -- An old discussion about feminism and Judaism : faith and renewal in Grace Paley's short fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Starhawk : dreaming a post-feminist, post-Jewish world / Irene C. Goldman-Price
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index