"In the open" : Jewish women writers and British culture / edited by Claire M. Tylee.

Other author Tylee, Claire M., 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press, ©2006.
Description272 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
English literature--Jewish authors. --History and criticism.
English literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
English literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Judaism and literature--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain. --History. --20th century.
Jewish women--Great Britain. --Intellectual life. --20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Jews in literature.

Contents Introduction : the visibility and distinctiveness of Jewish women's writing in Britain / Claire M. Tylee -- "Ticketing oneself a Yid" : generic fiction, antisemitism and the response to Nazi atrocities in Naomi Jacob's Barren metal / Claire M. Tylee -- "A Jewish womanhood attached to the soil, a new type of Jewish womanhood" : constructions of Israel in the fiction of Lynne Reid Banks / Deborah Philips -- Ellen Galford's "ghost writing" : dykes, dybbuks, and doppelgangers / Paulina Palmer -- Divided loyalties : Betty Miller's narratives of ambivalence / Sarah Sceats -- Bellow at your elbow, Roth breathing down your neck : gender and ethnicity in novels by Bernice Rubens and Linda Grant / David Brauner -- Motifs of exile, hopelessness, and loss : disentangling the matrix of Anita Brookner's novels / Aránzazu Usandizaga -- "Gay Israels" and the "nomadic embrace" : Mina Loy writing race / Alex Goody -- "The link of common aspirations" : Wales in the work of Lily Tobias / Jasmine Donahaye -- Denise Levertov and the poetry of multiculturalism / David Fulton -- Writing the self : memoirs by German exiles, British-Jewish women / Sue Vice -- Stages of memory : imagining identities in the Holocaust drama of Deborah Levy, Julia Pascal, and Diane Samuels / Susanne Greenhalgh -- "The pressure of what has been felt" : the poetry of Elaine Feinstein / Rose Atfield.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.
LCCN 2005037717
ISBN0874139333
ISBN9780874139334