Writing mothers, writing daughters : tracing the maternal in stories by American Jewish women / Janet Handler Burstein.

Author/creator Burstein, Janet
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.
Description205 pages ; 24 cm
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.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95050191
ISBN0252022521 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252065557 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.J4 B87 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold