Writing mothers, writing daughters
Subtitle: tracing the maternal in stories by American Jewish women
By: Janet Handler Burstein.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Judaism 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.; Mothers and daughters in literature.; Jewish women in literature.; Motherhood in literature.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translating immigrant women : writing the manifold self : Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Emma Goldman, Kate Simon; title: Leaving home and mother : dramas of differentiation : Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Tess Slesinger, Jo Sinclair, Marjorie Duhan Adler, Lynne Sharon Schwartz; title: Centering the devalued mother : re-vision and re-valuation : Rebekah Kohut, "Leah Morton", Emanie Sachs, Hana Stein, Jo Sinclair, Violet Weingarten, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Jane Lazarre, Phyllis Chesler; title: Mirroring the mother : the ordeal of narcissism : Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Alix Kates Schulman, Erica Jong, Shelley Steinman List, Rosellen Brown, Camille Baum, Daphne Merkin; title: Re-storying Jewish women : hearing the mothers, speaking the feminist self : Vivian Gornick, Judith Plaskow, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, Evelyn Torton Beck, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Judith Katz, Blu Greenberg, Nessa Rapaport, E.M. Broner, Kim Chernin.