Connections and collisions : identities in contemporary Jewish-American women's writing / edited by Lois E. Rubin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubin, Lois E., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Jewish authors.

Judaism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Judaism and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

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

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish women--United States--Intellectual life.

Jewish women.

Intellectual life.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Jewish women in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

260 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005]

Contents:

Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois E. Rubin

Cynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden

Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters / Lois E. Rubin

Close to the bone : the fiction of Nora Gold / Ruth Panofsky

Tova Reich's fiction : perspectives on mothering / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum

Wayfinding : (re)constructing Jewish identity in Mazel and Lovingkindness / Melanie Levinson

Seasons of our (dis)content, or, Orthodox women in Walden : Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls / Gloria L. Cronin

Reviving the golem, revisiting Frankenstein : cultural negotiations in Ozick's The Puttermesser papers and Piercy's He, she and it / Ruth Bienstock Anolik

A feminist interpretation of Jewish history and spirituality : collision and fusion in Marge Piercy's later poetry and fiction / S. Lillian Kramer

"A mensh fights back" in Joanne Greenberg's fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz

Split worlds and intersecting metaphors : representations of Jewish and lesbian identity in the works of Irena Klepfisz / Monica Bachmann

An old discussion about feminism and Judaism : faith and renewal in Grace Paley's short fiction / Victoria Aarons

Starhawk : dreaming a post-feminist, post-Jewish world / Irene C. Goldman-Price.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

087413899X

OCLC:

56535232