Salome of the tenements / Anzia Yezierska ; introduction by Gay Wilentz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yezierska, Anzia, 1880?-1970.

Series:

Radical novel reconsidered

The radical novel reconsidered

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Women immigrants.

New York (State)--New York.

Married women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Married women.

Jewish women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Jewish women.

Jews--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Jews.

Genre:

Political fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 184 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995]

Summary:

Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her "highborn" John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0252064356

OCLC:

32050035