| Description |
viii, 326 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Circle of women artists : Tillie Olsen and Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute / Diane Middlebrook -- Reading, writing, and arithmetic : the lessons Silences has taught us / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Rereading Tell me a riddle in the age of deconstruction / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- "No one's private ground" : a Bakhtinian reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell me a riddle / Constance Coiner -- "Further liftings of the veil" : gender, class, and labor in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy / Carla L. Peterson -- Attentive silence in Joy Kogawa's Obasan / King-Kok Cheung -- Northamerican silences : history, identity, and witness in the poetry of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Leslie Marmon Silko / Kate Adams -- Silences in Harriet " Linda Brent" Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Joanne M. Braxton, Sharon Zuber -- Women's silence as a ritual of truth : a study of literary expressions in Austen, Brönte and Woolf / Patricia Laurence -- Reading feminist readings : recuperative reading and the silent heroine of feminist criticism / Carla Kaplan -- Silent parenting in the academy / Constance Coiner -- "How many of us can you hold to your breast?" : mothering |
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in the academy / Diana Hume George -- Teaching from the open closet / Rebecca Mark -- Cognitive desires : an allegory of/for Chicana critics / Norma Alarcón -- Silences in the in-between : feminist women critics and the canon / Judith L. Sensibar, Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- "The great unexamined" : silence, speech, and class / Lillian S. Robinson -- Filling in the silences : Tillie Olsen's reading lists / Robin Dizard. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Authorship -- Sex differences.
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Authorship -- Sex differences. |
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Feminism and literature.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Silence in literature.
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Silence in literature. |
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Women and literature.
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Women and literature. |
| Indexed Term |
English literature By Women |
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United States |
| Added Author |
Hedges, Elaine.
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Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.
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| ISBN |
0195073061 alkaline paper |
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019507307X paperback alkaline paper |
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