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The Critical Response to Tillie Olsen
by Kay Hoyle Nelson, Nancy Lyman Huse. 281 pgs.

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The selections of criticism in this anthology reveal the social, cultural, and economic contexts of the writings of Tillie Olsen. The essays link Olsen with socialism, feminism, and the American literary tradition, and show the potential for activism cultivated in her early years. They reflect her concern with women and children, and explore her belief in the power of the written and spoken word. The volume also serves as a companion to other full-length studies of Olsen.

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Recent Titles in Critical Responses in Arts and Letters

Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chronology

The Literary Life in California

The 1930s-1940s: Radical Writings Discovered & Recovered

Three Women Work It Out

The Living Image

Review of Yonnindio: From the Thirties

De-Riddling Tillie Olsen's Writings

From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Transition

Voices: Bakhtin's Heteroglossia and Polyphony, and the Performance of Narrative Literature

Labor Activism and the Post-War Politics of Motherhood: Tillie Olsen in the People's World

The 1950s-1970s: Fictions of Struggle & Survival

Stories: New, Old, and Sometimes Good

The Many Forms Which Loss Can Take

The Passion of Tillie Olsen

Limning: or Why Tillie Writes

"I Stand Here Ironing": Motherhood as Experience and Metaphor

Olsen's "O Yes": Alva's Vision as Childbirth Account

Polar Stars, Pyramids, and "Tell Me a Riddle"

Tillie Olsen: The Writer as a Jewish Woman

Death Labors

"No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle

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Re-reading Tillie Olsen's "O Yes"

After Long Silence: Tillie Olsen's "Requa"

Rethinking the Father: Maternal Recursion in Tillie Olsen's "Requa"

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The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past

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The 1970s-1990s: Mentorings Through Word & Deed

Silences by Tillie Olsen

Obstacle Course

Review of Silences by Tillie Olsen

Books: Tillie Olsen. Silences

Lessons in Killing Wonder

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Index

About the Editors
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Jewish Women Fiction Writers ("Tillie Olsen" begins on p. 53)
by Harold Bloom. 177 pgs.

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Hortense Calisher

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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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Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism (Chap. 6 "Deconstructing the Sexual Politic: Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen")
by Elizabeth A. Meese. 180 pgs.

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1 Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment

Chapter 2 Signs of Undecidability: RECONSIDERING THE STORIES OF MARY WILKINS FREEMAN

Chapter 3 Orality and Textuality in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Chapter 4 a World of Women: MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S HOUSEKEEPING

Chapter 5 Crossing the Double-Cross: THE CONCEPT OF "DIFFERENCE" AND FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM

Chapter 6 Deconstructing the Sexual Politic: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND TILLIE OLSEN

Chapter 7 Defiance: THE BODY (OF) WRITING/ THE WRITING (OF) BODY

Chapter 8 In/Conclusion: THE PROBLEM OF THEORY AND THE PRACTICE OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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Labor & Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America Gender and American Figure ("Yonnondio: Unlimn'd They Disappear" begins on p. 124)
by Paula Rabinowitz. 224 pgs.

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Preface

Prologue On the Breadlines and the Headlines

1 Labor and Desire A Gendered History of Literary Radicalism

The Contradictions of Gender and Genre 2

3 The Great Mother Female Working-Class Subjectivity

4 Grotesque Creatures The Female Intellectual as Subject

Epilogue Bread and Roses Too: Notes toward a Materialist-Feminist Literary History

Notes

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Index
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On the Side of the Mother: 'Yonnondio' and 'Call It Sleep', in Studies in American Fiction
by Elaine Orr. 15 pgs.

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Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America ("Writing on a Battlefield: Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio and Tell Me a Riddle" begins on p. 21)
by Maria Lauret. 242 pgs.

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Liberating Literature is, primarily, a bold and revealing book about feminist writers, readers, and texts. But is is also much more than that. Within this volume Maria Lauret manages to look with fresh vision at the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s; socialist women's writing of the 1930s; the emergence of the New Left; and the second wave women's movement and its cultural practices. Lauret's historicisation of feminist political writing allows for a new definition of the genre, and enables her to illuminate the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing. Well-grounded historically and theoretically, Liberating Literature speaks about and to a political and cultural tradition, and offers stunning new readings of both familiar and neglected novels within the feminist canon. Reader and students of feminist fiction cannot afford to be without this major new work.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: ‘This Story Must Be Told’

2: The Politics of Women’s Liberation

3: Liberating Literature

4: ‘If We Restructure the Sentence Our Lives Are Making’

5: Healing the Body Politic

6: Seizing Time and Making New

7: ‘Context Is All’

Conclusion

Notes

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Index
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Flowing against the Traditional Stream: Consciousness in Tillie Olsen's 'Tell Me a Riddle', in MELUS
by Lydia A. Schultz. 19 pgs.

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"That Joyous Certainty": History and Utopia in Tillie Olsen's Depression-Era Literature, in Twentieth Century Literature
by Anthony Dawahare. 15 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("Tillie Olsen (1913?-)" begins on p. 423)
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 660 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

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Contributors

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Introduction

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Part I: Thematic Essays

The American Short Story Cycle

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The American Short Story, 1807–1900

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The African American Short Story

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The Asian American Short Story

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The Chicano-Latino Short Story

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The Ecological Short Story

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Lesbian and Gay Short Stories

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The Native American Short Story

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Non-English American Short Stories

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The American Working-Class Short Story

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American Short Stories of the Holocaust

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Part II: Individual Writers and Their Work

Alice Adams (1926–1999)

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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

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James Baldwin (1924–1987)

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John Earth (1930– )

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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

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Rick Bass (1959– )

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Richard Bausch (1945– )

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Charles Baxter (1947– )

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Ann Beattie (1947– )

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Saul Bellow (1915– )

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Gina Berriault (1926– )

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Doris Betts (1932– )

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Paul Bowles (1910–1999)

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Kay Boyle (1902–1992)

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Ray Bradbury (l920– )

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Kate Braverman (1950– )

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Larry Brown (1951– )

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Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987)

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Hortense Calisher (1911– )

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Truman Capote (1924–1984)

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Raymond Carver (1938–1988)

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Willa Gather (1873–1947)

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John Cheever (1912–1982)

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Sandra Cisneros (1954– )

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971)

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930– )

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Robert Coover (1932– )

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Lydia Davis (1947– )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953– )

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Andre Dubus (1936–1999)

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Deborah Eisenberg (1946– )

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Stanley Elkin (1930–1995)

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George P. Elliott (1918–1980)

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John Fante (1909–1983)

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James T. Farrell (1904–1979)

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William Faulkner (1897–1962)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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Richard Ford (1944– )

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Mary Gaitskill (1954– )

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William H. Gass (1924– )

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Ellen Gilchrist (1935– )

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Herbert Gold (1924– )

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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Amy Hempel (1951– )

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Mary Hood (1946– )

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Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

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Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)

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Jamaica Kincaid (1949– )

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Ring Lardner (1885–1933)

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David Leavitt (1961– )

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Ursula K. le Guin (1929– )

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Meridel le Sueur (1900–1996)

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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944– )

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Jack London (1876–1916)

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David Wong Louie (1954– )

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Norman Mailer (1923– )

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Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

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Bobbie Ann Mason (1940– )

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Mary Mccarthy (1912–1989)

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Elizabeth Mccracken (1966– )

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Carson Mccullers (1917–1967)

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Thomas Mcguane (1939– )

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James Alan Mcpherson (1943– )

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Nicholasa Mohr (1938– )

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Lorrie Moore (1957– )

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Toshio Mori (1910–1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee (1940– )

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

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Joyce Carol Gates (1938– )

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Tim O Brien (1946– )

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Flannery O Connor (1925–1964)

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John O Kara (1905–1970)

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Tillie Olsen (1913?– )

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Simon Ortiz (1941– )

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Cynthia Ozick (1928– )

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Grace Paley (1922– )

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Americo Paredes (1915–1999)

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

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Jayne Anne Phillips (1952– )

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

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William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862–1910)

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Annie Proulx (1935– )

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Thomas Pynchon (1937– )

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953)

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Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952– )

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Philip Roth (1933– )

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Damon Runyon (1880–1946)

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J. D. Salinger (1919– )

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Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996)

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William Saroyan (1908–1981)

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Delmore Schwartzs (1913–1966)

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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )

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Jean Stafford (1915–1979)

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Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)

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John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

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Elizabeth Tallent (1954– )

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Peter Taylor (1917–1994)

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James Thurber (1894–1961)

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John Updike (1932– )

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Helena María Viramontes (1954– )

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Anna Lee Walters (1946– )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

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Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953– )

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Eudora Welty (1909– )

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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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Joy Williams (1944– )

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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)

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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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Tobias Wolff (1945– )

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Richard Wright (1908–1960)

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Hisaye Yamamoto (1921– )

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Anzia Yezierska (1881–1970)

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Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature ("Olsen, Tillie" begins on p. 187)
by Kathy J. Whitson. 302 pgs.

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Many women writers have secured a solid place in the literary canon, while others have remained marginalized. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 70 women writers whose works are widely read in English, and on some 20 related topics. While some of the writers profiled are widely known, others have not yet received as much attention. And while most of the writers are from England and America, the volume also profiles Chilean, Brazilian, Indian, South African, Australian, French, and German authors. The writers selected are feminist, in that their works have challenged traditional gender roles, explored female oppression, or critiqued patriarchal social structures. In addition to providing biographical information, the entries include interpretative summaries of major works.

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Introduction

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