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

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

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...Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over...the rediscovery and celebration of Anzia Yezierskas masterpiece Bread Givers in the early...Found America:...
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Starving for Hunger: The Fiction of Anzia Yezierska, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Nieves Pascual. 14 pgs.

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...Starving for hunger: the fiction of Anzia Yezierska. by Nieves Pascual...literature. This essay focusses on Anzia Yezierskas obsession with hunger, which...Ellmanns work...
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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche (Chap. 2 "Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers") » Read Now
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...
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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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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) » Read Now
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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The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History through Stories ("Children of Loneliness" by Anzia Yezierska begins on p. 223) » Read Now
by Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Samuel Scheer. 338 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories Edited by Rosetta Marantz...
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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) » Read Now
by Harry R. Warfel, Ralph H. Gabriel, Stanley T. Williams. 692 pgs.

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...Ethics in Service by William Howard Taft . ANZIA YEZIERSKA: for "How I Found America." CONTENTS--VOLUME II...An Unfinished Story 1047 ANZIA YEZIERSKA 1885- 1050 How I Found...
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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") » Read Now
by Sam B. Girgus. 220 pgs.

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The Invention of Ethnicity ("Anzia Yezierska and the Making of an Ethnic American Self" begins on p. 105) » Read Now
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...
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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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Race and the Modern Artist ("Incognito Ergo Sum: 'Ex' Marks the Spot in Cahan, Johnson, Larsen, and Yezierska" begins on p. 140) » Read Now
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...
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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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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") » Read Now
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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Spectacle Ethnography and Immigrant Resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska, in MELUS » Read Now
by Lori Jirousek. 29 pgs.

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...resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska. by Lori Jirousek...immigrants, Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska, wrote against this spectacularized...ethnography, Sui Sin Far...
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Marriage and the Immigrant Narrative: Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers » Read Now
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 » Read Now
by Christopher N. Okonkwo. 19 pgs.

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...Assertion, and the Speakerly Dress: Anzia Yezierskas Salome of the Tenements by Christopher N. Okonkwo Anzia Yezierskas complex and radical first novel...Introduction. The...
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American Women Writers, 1900-1945: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Anzia Yezierska (1883?-1970)" begins on p. 378) » Read Now
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...
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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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