Silences
By: Tillie Olsen.
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Authorship -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Women authors -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Description: "In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the acknowledged great and those who ceased to write ... Tillie Olsen focuses on the silences that are most immediate to her own experience: how a negative literary climate, childbearing and rearing shape a woman's writing life"--Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.