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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811360903321

Titolo

Modern Jewish women writers in America / / edited with an introduction by Evelyn Avery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36304-9

9786611363048

0-230-60484-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AveryEvelyn Gross <1940->

Disciplina

810.9/8924

Soggetti

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Jewish women - United States - Intellectual life

Jews - United States

Jewish women in literature

Jews in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.