Nancy Huse, Kay Nelson

The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen

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Produktbeschreibung

The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American literary tradition, and show the potential for activism cultivated in her early years. They reflect her concern with women and children, and explore her belief in the power of the written and spoken word. The volume also serves as a companion to other full-length studies of Olsen. Tillie Olsen grew up in a Socialist, secular Jewish immigrant working-class home in the American midwest, and became one of the most striking writers of the twentieth century. The selections of criticism in this anthology survey the reception of her work over the past sixty years and clarify the social, cultural, and economic contexts of her writings. The volume includes selections of the most important criticism of her work, along with original contributions. The essays in this book are grouped in three sections, which correspond with different stages in the development of Olsen's life and art. The selections demonstrate the potential for social activism cultivated in her upbringing, her development as a young writer in the mid-1930s California Marxian milieu, and her maturation after years of balancing the responsibilities of childrearing and employment outside the home. The pieces link her with traditional American literary figures, and relate her to socialist feminist literary tradition and the Jewish American tradition as well. An important introduction to her work, the volume is also a companion to other studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780313287145
• ISBN-10: 0313287147
• Artikelnr.: 22134665

Autorenporträt

Nancy Huse, Kay Nelson

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Acknowledgments Chronology
Introduction by Kay Hoyle Nelson The 1930s-1940s: Radical Writings
Discovered and Recovered The Literary Life in California by Robert Cantwell
Three Women Work It Out by Catharine R. Stimpson The Living Image by Peter
Ackroyd Review of Yonnondio: From the Thirties by Scott Turow De-Riddling
Tillie Olsen's Writing by Selma Burkom and Margaret Williams From the
Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition by Deborah Rosenfelt
Voices: Bakhtin's Heteroglossia and Polyphony, and the Performance of
Narrative Literature by Linda M. Park-Fuller Labor Activism and the
Post-War Politics of Motherhood: Tillie Olsen in the People's World by
Michael E. Staub The 1950s-1970s: Fictions of Struggle & Survival Stories:
New, Old, and Sometimes Good by Irving Howe The Many Forms Which Loss Can
Take by Richard M. Elman The Passion of Tillie Olsen by Elizabeth Fisher
Limning: Or Why Tillie Writes by Ellen Cronan Rose "I Stand Here Ironing":
Motherhood as Experience and Metaphor by Joanne S. Frye Olsen's "O Yes":
Alva's Vision as Childbirth Account by Naomi M. Jacobs Polar Stars,
Pyramids, and "Tell Me a Riddle" by Edward L. Niehus and Teresa Jackson
Tillie Olsen: The Writer as a Jewish Woman by Bonnie Lyons Death Labors by
Joanne Trautmann Banks "No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of
Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle by Constance Coiner Re-reading Tillie
Olsen's "O Yes" by Nancy Huse After Long Silence: Tillie Olsen's "Requa" by
Blanche H. Gelfant Rethinking the Father: Maternal Recursion in Tillie
Olsen's "Requa" by Elaine Orr The Circumstances of Silence: Literary
Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past by Linda Ray Pratt The
1970s-1990s: Mentorings through Word & Deed Silences by Tillie Olsen by
Joyce Carol Oates Obstacle Course by Margaret Atwood Review of Silences by
Tillie Olsen by Nolan Miller Books: Tillie Olsen. Silences by Valerie
Trueblood Lessons in Killing Wonder by Carol Lauhon Bibliography Index