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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784146103321

Titolo

Modern Jewish Women Writers in America [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Evelyn Avery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-36304-9

9786611363048

0-230-60484-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

810.98924

Soggetti

Social sciences

Theology

Judaism

Literature

Sociology

Sex (Psychology)

Gender expression

Gender identity

Social Sciences

Gender Studies

Christian Theology

Literature, general

North American Literature

America Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Modern Jewish Women Writers in America: An Introduction; I: The Early Years-In Search of the Promised Land: 1910s-1950s; II: The Roads Diverge-Assimilation and Its Discontents: 1960s-1990s; III: The Covenant Confirmed? 1990s-2000; IV: Into the Twenty-First Century: The Pendulum Swings; Select Annotated Bibliography of Contemporary Jewish American Women



Writers; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.