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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burstein, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Jewish authors.

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.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]

Summary:

Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters contains thematically organized chapters, each discussing the literary works of several 'daughters.' Whereas early immigrant daughters translated their mothers' behavior into the vernacular of their own American experiences, some later daughters attempted to sever connections with the traditional ethnic and gendered givens of their mothers' lives.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252022521

0252065557

OCLC:

33861825