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Title:

Daughters of valor : contemporary Jewish American women writers / edited by Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

286 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Judaism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Jewish women--United States--Intellectual life.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Jews in literature.

Other Authors:

Halio, Jay L.
Siegel, Ben, 1925-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Writing Jewish fiction in and out of the multicultural context / Allegra Goodman. "In life I am not free" : the writer Cynthia Ozick and her Jewish obligations / Susanne Klingenstein -- "Daughters of refugees of the ongoing-universal-endless-upheaval" : Anne Roiphe and the quest for narrative power in Jewish American women's fiction / Miriyam Glazer -- Anne Roiphe : finding her America / Jay L. Halio -- Responding to an old story : Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Lesléa Newman, and Francine Prose / Victoria Aarons -- Erica Jong : becoming a Jewish writer / Charlotte Templin -- "Pin with which to stick yourself" : the Holocaust in Jewish American women's writing / Sara R. Horowitz -- Norma Rosen : an American literary response to the Holocaust / S. Lillian Kremer -- Resisting the melting pot : the Jewish back-story in the fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz / James M. Mellard -- Adrienne Rich : "stuck to earth" / Karen W. Klein -- Kael and farewell / Steven G. Kellman -- Wendy Wasserstein and the crisis of (Jewish) identity / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Immersions in the postmodern : the fiction of Allegra Goodman / Gloria L. Cronin -- Writing Jewish fiction in and out of the multicultural context / Allegra Goodman.

ISBN:

9780874136111 (alk. paper)
0874136113 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

96026164

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)