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Jewish Women Fiction Writers ("Anzia Yezierska (1885-1970)" begins on p. 160)
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Hortense Calisher

Bibliography

Edna Ferber

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Lillian Hellman 1905-1984

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Tillie Olsen

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Cynthia Ozick

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Grace Paley

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Dorothy Parker

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Marge Piercy

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Gertrude Stein

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Anzia Yezierska

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Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews, in MELUS
by Ron Ebest. 25 pgs.

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Starving for Hunger: The Fiction of Anzia Yezierska, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Nieves Pascual. 14 pgs.

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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche (Chap. 2 "Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers")
by Katherine B. Payant, Toby Rose. 198 pgs.

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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. The introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to the experiences of different ethnic groups.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted

Notes

Works Cited

1: In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography

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2: Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers

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3: Fighting the Trolls on the Dakota Plains: The Ecstasy and the Agony of Norwegian Immigrants' Lives in O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth

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4: Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating Between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions

Notes

Works Cited

5: Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

Notes

Works Cited

6: Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold

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7: Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration

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8: Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek

9: Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes

Primary Sources

10: Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the Sun

Notes

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110: Basan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies

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12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

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12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

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Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("An Immigrant Girl's Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers (1923)" begins on p. 56)
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

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This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Women’s Roles and Influence in Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The War against the Feminine: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Doctor She! Helena and Sisterhood in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (ca. 1602–1603)

For Further Reading

Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)

Young Lady or slut: Identity and Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1983)

Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.E.)

Work Cited

Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin’s the Awakening (1899)

For Further Reading

Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees (1988)

William Faulkner’s Male Myth: the Bear (1942)

More Than Skin Deep: Robin Mckinley’s Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique (1963)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987): Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding

Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945, 1991) and Black Women

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Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s the Bluest Eye (1970)

Founding Women’s History: Christine de Pizan Writes the Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

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A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932)

An Immigrant Girl’s Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

For Further Reading

As My Mother’s Daughter: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta’s the Bride Price (1976)

The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London’s the Call of the Wild (1904)

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388–1400)

Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Eye (1951)

Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple (1982)

The Women in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

Witch-Hunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Arthur Miller’s the Crucible (1953)

A Nice Girl Ought to Know! Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878)

Redefining Female Absence in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)

Black and White Womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, Rebels (1986)

Work Cited

Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self—the Female Adolescent Voice (1952)

For Further Reading

The Slammed Door That Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (1879)

Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911)

Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s a Farewell to Arms (1929)

The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress’ Florence (1950)

For Further Reading

Daring Creation: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, Revised 1831)

Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie (1945)

What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)

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Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S.Buck’s the Good Earth (1931)

No Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861)

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Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby (1925)

Reading between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600)

Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

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When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

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Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros’ the House on Mango Street (1984)

Living in a Borderland: Cultural Expectations of Gender in Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Good Mother, Bad Mother in Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

Bobbie Ann Mason’s in Country (1985): a Girl’s Quest for Her Father and Herself

The Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)

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Be True to Yourself: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Thinking Different in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club (1989)

Gender Bending: Ursula le Guin’s the Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

What a Teacher Learns: Ernest J.Games’ a Lesson before Dying (1993)

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The Foreignness of Femininity in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)

Boys’ Club—no Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)

Unnatural: Women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (ca. 1606)

Emma Rouault Bovary: Gendered Reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

(Re)surfacing Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

Critiquing “the We of Me”: Gender Roles in Carson Mccullers’ the Member of the Wedding (1946)

Works Cited

Beauty and Gender in Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)

Where No Role Fits: Maggie’s Predicament in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss (1860)

For Further Reading

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Epic Tale of Male Destruction (1851)

For Further Reading

Images of Possibility: Gender Identity in Willa Cather’s My Àntonia (1918)

Work Cited

The Good Woman: Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)

Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)

Homer’s Odyssey: “the Iliad’s Wife” (ca. 700 B.C.E.)

Jocasta and Her Daughters: Women in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (ca. 430 B.C.E.)

Women Stripped of Humanity: John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men (1937)

Role Traps in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Under the Burden of Yellow Peril: Race, Class, and Gender in Yoshiko Uchida’s Picture Bride (1987)

For Further Reading

Woman and Art in James Joyce’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Stereotypes of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Undue Influence in Muriel Spark’s the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Exploring the Gender Puzzle of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912)

Work Cited

Seasoned with Quiet Strength: Black Womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Heroism against the Odds: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1599)

Molly Bolts and Lifelines: Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle (1973)

A as Hester’s Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter (1850)

Female Freedom in Other Places and Inner Spaces: Suzanne Fisher Staples’ Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989)

For Further Reading

Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

Empowerment through Writing in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)

Wearing “her Favour in the Battle”: the “go-Between” in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913)

Riding Tennessee Williams’ a Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Agent or Victim: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles (1891)

An African-American Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Fragmenting Culture, Fragmenting Lives: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959)

Just a Lady: Gender and Power in Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916)

For Further Reading

For Such as We Are Made Of, Such We Be: the Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will (first Performed 1602)

Work Cited

The Power of Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

A Chinese-American Woman Warrior Comes of Age: Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Procrustean Bed: Gender Roles in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)

Negotiating Tight Spaces: Women in Michael Dorris’ a Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988)

Index of Literary Works by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History through Stories ("Children of Loneliness" by Anzia Yezierska begins on p. 223)
by Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Samuel Scheer. 338 pgs.

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Preface

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

Part I: ". . . This Wretched State of Meanness and Servility": The Teacher in the Early Republic

"The Rare Adventures of Tom Brainless" From The Progress of Dulness

The Private Tutor

"Ichabod Crane" From "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (set c. 1790)

From the Algetine Captive

"Memoirs of a Woman Teacher" From Educational Biographies, Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature, and Science, Part I: Teachers and Educators (c. 1804-1816>)

From The District School As It Was (set c. 1810)

"The School-Master in the Dark South" From Recollections of Seventy Years (c. 1830)

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Part II: "As to the Moral Condition of the People . . . ": The Teacher and The Common School

"Bronson Alcott's Method" From Record of a School: Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture

Death in the School-Room (A FACT)

From Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster: A Tale

"A Struggle for the Mastery" From The Hoosier Schoolmaster: A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana (set c. 1850)

"Letters From Pioneer Women Teachers"1

From "Life On the Sea Islands"

From "The March of Progress" (set c. 1878)

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Part III: "The Heart Is the Teacher": The Teacher in The Progressive Era

From "The Letters of Anne Sullivan," (c. 1887)

"The Arts At Hull-House" From Twenty Years At Hull-House c. 1891

"Of the Coming of John" From The Souls of Black Folk

From "Morris and the Honourable Tim"

A Schoolmaster of the Great City (c. 1898-1907)

From The Heart Is the Teacher (c. 1920)1

"Children of Loneliness"

"Split Cherry Tree"

SUGGESTED READINGS

Part IV: "Tell Him the House Is Falling In": The Teacher, 1945-1994

"A Wreath For Miss Totten"

"Doctor Jack-O'-Lantern"

From Death At an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools1

Teacher

From Socrates, Plato, and Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher

"Lily Chin" From A Lifetime of Teaching: Portraits of Five Veteran High School Teachers

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References

Author Index

Subject Index
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The American Mind: Selections from the Literature of the United States, Vol. 2 ("How I Found America" by Anzia Yezierska begins on p. 1050)
by Harry R. Warfel, Ralph H. Gabriel, Stanley T. Williams. 692 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents--Volume II

V Transition to the Machine Age 1865-1919

Transition to the Machine Age--Introduction

Walt Whitman 1819-1892

Frontier Thought

Frontier Thought

Frontier Thought

Frontier Thought

Religious and Philosophical Thought

Western Humorists

The Rise of Realism

Vi Contemporary Thought 1919--

Contemporary Thought--Introduction

Trends in Social and Political Thought

Trends in Religious and Philosophical Thought

Trends in Recent Poetry

Trends in Recent Fiction

Trends in Recent Fiction

Bibliographies

Chronology

Index
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The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea (Chap. 6 "'Blut-und-Eisen': Anzia Yezierska and the New Self-Made Woman")
by Sam B. Girgus. 220 pgs.

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The New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part I: A Poetics of the American Idea

Chapter 1: A New Hero of Thought in a New Narrative

Chapter 2: In Search of the Real America

Part II: Ideology and Culture

Chapter 3: The American Way from the Colonial Era to Louis Brandeis, Sidney Hillman, and the Liberal Consensus

Chapter 4: A Convert to America Sex, Self, and Ideology in Abraham Cahan

Part III: The Ghetto: Shelter and Prison

Chapter 5: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Luther

Chapter 6: "Blut-Und-Eisen" Anzia Yezierska and the New Self-Made Woman

Chapter 7: The Jew as Underground Man

Part IV: The Book of America

Chapter 8: Song of Him-Self

Chapter 9: A True Radical History

Chapter 10: Postscript Toward a New Consensus

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Invention of Ethnicity ("Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self" begins on p. 105)
by Werner Sollors. 294 pgs.

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This important new collection of interdisciplinary essays sets out to chart the cultural construction of "ethnicity" as embodied in American ethnic literature. Looking at a diverse set of texts, the contributors place the subject in broad historical and dynamic contexts, focusing on the larger systems within which ethnic distinctions emerge and obtain recognition. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. Table of Contents: On the Fourth of July in Sitka, Ishmael Reed. Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity, Werner Sollors. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time "Jewesses", Alide Cagidemetrio. Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German-America on Parade, Kathleen Conzen. Defining the Race, 1890-1930, Judith Stein. Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self, Mary Dearborn. Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale, Carla Cappeti. Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics, William Boelhower. Blood in the Market Place: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives, Thomas Ferraro. Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Is Ethnicity Obsolete, Ishmael Reed, Andrew Hope, Shawn Wong, and Bob Callahan.

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On the Fourth of July in Sitka, 1982

Introduction: The Invention of Ethnicity

An American Writer

A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time 'Jewesses"

Ethnicity as Festive Culture: Nineteenth-Century German America on Parade

Deffining the Race 1890-1930

Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self

Deviant Girls and Dissatisfied Women: A Sociologist's Tale

Ethnic Trilogies: A Genealogical and Generational Poetics

Blood in the Marketplace: The Business of Family in the Godfather Narratives

Comping for Count Basie

Is Ethnicity Obsolete?

Notes

List of Contributors

Index
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Race and the Modern Artist ("Incognito Ergo Sum: 'Ex' Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska" begins on p. 140)
by Heather Hathaway, Josef Jarab, Jeffrey Melnick. 266 pgs.

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Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Frank, and Jean Toomer to Pedro Pietri and Allen Ginsberg, these essays examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. In so doing, the collection as a whole adds an important new dimension to our understanding of twentieth-century literature.

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Contributors

Race and the Modern Artist

Introduction: Modernity, Modernism, and the American Ethnic Minority Artist

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T. S. Eliot, B. A. Botkin, and the Politics of Cultural Representation: Folklore, Modernity, and Pluralism

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Four Types of Writing Under Modern Conditions; Or, Black Writers and “populist Modernism”

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Exploring “something New”: The “modernism” of Claude Mckay's Harlem Shadows

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The Strong Men Gittin' Stronger: Sterling Brown's Southern Road and the Representation and Re-Creation of the Southern Folk Voice

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Waldo Frank, Jean Toomer, and the Critique of Racial Voyeurism

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Among Negroes: Gertrude Stein and African America

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A Black Man in Jewface

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Incognito Ergo Sum: Ex Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska

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A Jewish New World in Jacob Glatshteyn's “sheeny Mike”

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Beware of Signs; Or, How to Tell the Living from the Dead: Orality and Writing in the Work of Pedro Pietri

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Centralizing the Marginal: Prolegomena to a Study of Boundaries in Contemporary African American Fiction

Notes

When All Met Together in One Room: Josef Jařab Interviews Allen Ginsberg

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Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism (Chap. 5 "Progressive Education, Essentialism and Ethnicity: Anzia Yezierska and Ludwig Lewisohn")
by Chip Rhodes. 218 pgs.

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Rhodes grants the truth of appearances to the cliches of the Jazz Age - the lost generation of writers, the era of mass consumption and the silver screen - while revealing their roots in a conservative ideology which sustained Republican rule.

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THE HAYMARKET SERIES

Contents

Part I Conventional Myths

Introduction: American Exceptionalism, Literary History and the 1920s

Intellectuals and the Contemptible Masses: H.L. Mencken and Irving Babbitt

2 American Modernism, Aesthetics And Man-Made Truths: Willa Cather and John Dos Passos

Part II Reevaluating Twenties Culture

3 Limited Prosperity and Republican Ascension: the Conjunctural Coordinates of Twenties Culture

4 Personality, Mass Culture and Class: The Novels of Harry Leon Wilson And Theodore Dreiser

5 Progressive Education, Essentialism and Ethnicity: Anzia Yezierska and Ludwig Lewisohn

6 Primitive Desires and The Desire for the Primitive: Dubose Heyward and Nella Larsen

Conclusion: The New American Studies and the 1920s

Notes

Index
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Spectacle Ethnography and Immigrant Resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska, in MELUS
by Lori Jirousek. 29 pgs.

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Marriage and the Immigrant Narrative: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Natalie Friedman. 10 pgs.

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Of Repression, Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements, in MELUS
by Christopher N. Okonkwo. 19 pgs.

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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)" begins on p. 378)
by Laurie Champion, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 412 pgs.

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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons, not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945, a period that embraces two major artistic movements, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a review of the author's critical reception, and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume reflects the diversity of American culture through its coverage of African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Chinese American women writers.

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Introduction

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954)

Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948)

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934)

Djuna Barnes (Lydia Steptoe) (1892-1982)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Marita Odette Bonner (1898-1971)

Kay Boyle (1902-1992)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert (1894-1991)

Willa Cather (1873-1947)

Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)

Rachel Crothers (1878-1958)

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Alice Maude Ewell (1860-1946)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Edna Ferber (1885-1968)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958)

Zona Gale (1874-1938)

Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945)

Susan Keating Glaspell (1876-1948)

Jovita GonzÁLez de Mireles (1904-1983)

Caroline Gordon (1895-1981)

Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956)

Georgia Douglas Camp Johnson (1877-1966)

Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Margery Latimer (1899-1932)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Mina Loy (1882-1966)

Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962)

Carson Mccullers (1917-1967)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Mourning Dove (Hum-Um-Ishu-Mau) [Christine Quintasket] (1882?-1936)

Josephina Niggli (1910-1983)

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881-1941)

Dorothy Scarborough (1878-1935)

Anne Spencer (1882-1975)

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924)

Sui Sin Far (Edith Maude Eaton) (1865-1914)

Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

Eudora Alice Welty (1909-)

Dorothy West (1907-1998)

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)

Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)

Zitkala-šA (Gertrude Simmons Bonninu) (1876-1938)

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing (Chap. 5 "As If I Were Dead": Passing into Subjectivity in the Writings of Ets, Antin, Yezierska and Barolini")
by Steven J. Belluscio. 288 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Assimilation, Whiteness, and Realism

2: To Pass or Not to Pass? William Dean Howells''s and Frances E W Harper''s "Not Very Black" Women

3: Race or Nation? White Ethnics Upstream in the Writing of Cautela, Cahan, D''Agostino, Lewisohn, and Ornitz

4: "To Rise above This Absurd Drama That Others Have Staged"

5: "As If I Were Dead"

6: Women "Caught between Two Allegiances"

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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