Connections and collisions
Subtitle: identities in contemporary Jewish-American women's writing
By: edited by Lois Rubin.
Contributors: Rubin, Lois, 1942-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jewish women -- United States -- Intellectual life; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Group identity in literature; Jewish women in literature; Jews in literature
Description: "This anthology of scholarship on Jewish women writers is the first to focus on what it is to be a woman and a Jew and to explore how the two identities variously support and oppose each other. The collection is part of a growing scholarship that reflects the enormous output of writing by Jewish women since the second wave of the women's movement in the 1970s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois Rubin; title: Cynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden; title: Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters / Lois Rubin; title: Close to the bone : the fiction of Nora Gold / Ruth Panofsky; title: Tova Reich's fiction : perspectives on mothering / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum; title: Wayfinding : (re)constructing Jewish identity in Mazel and Lovingkindness / Melanie Levinson; title: Seasons of our (dis)content, or, Orthodox women in Walden : Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls / Gloria L. Cronin; title: Revising the golem, revisiting Frankenstein : cultural negotiations in Ozick's The Puttermesser papers and Piercy's He, she and it / Ruth Bienstock Anolik; title: A feminist interpretation of Jewish history and spirituality : collision and fusion in Marge Piercy's later poetry and fiction / S. Lillian Kramer; title: A mensh fights back in Joanne Greenberg's fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz; title: Split worlds and intersecting metaphors : representations of Jewish and lesbian identity in the works of Irena Klepfisz / Monica Bachmann; title: An old discussion about feminism and Judaism : faith and renewal in Grace Paley's short fiction / Victoria Aarons; title: Starhawk : dreaming a post-feminist, post-Jewish world / Irene C. Goldman-Price.