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Title:

Listening to silences : new essays in feminist criticism / edited by Elaine Hedges, Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

viii, 326 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
English literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Authorship--Sex differences.
Feminism and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Silence in literature
Women and literature.

Other Authors:

Hedges, Elaine.
Fishkin, Shelley Fisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Circle of women artists : Tillie Olsen and Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute / Diane Middlebrook -- Reading, writing, and arithmetic : the lessons Silences has taught us / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Rereading Tell me a riddle in the age of deconstruction / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- "No one's private ground" : a Bakhtinian reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell me a riddle / Constance Coiner -- "Further liftings of the veil" : gender, class, and labor in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy / Carla L. Peterson -- Attentive silence in Joy Kogawa's Obasan / King-Kok Cheung -- Northamerican silences : history, identity, and witness in the poetry of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, and Leslie Marmon Silko / Kate Adams -- Silences in Harriet " Linda Brent" Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Joanne M. Braxton, Sharon Zuber -- Women's silence as a ritual of truth : a study of literary expressions in Austen, Brönte and Woolf / Patricia Laurence -- Reading feminist readings : recuperative reading and the silent heroine of feminist criticism / Carla Kaplan -- Silent parenting in the academy / Constance Coiner -- "How many of us can you hold to your breast?" : mothering
in the academy / Diana Hume George -- Teaching from the open closet / Rebecca Mark -- Cognitive desires : an allegory of/for Chicana critics / Norma Alarcón -- Silences in the in-between : feminist women critics and the canon / Judith L. Sensibar, Judith Bryant Wittenberg -- "The great unexamined" : silence, speech, and class / Lillian S. Robinson -- Filling in the silences : Tillie Olsen's reading lists / Robin Dizard.

ISBN:

9780195073072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
019507307X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195073065 (alk. paper)
0195073061 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)29386478

LCCN:

93043199

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)