Silences /
"In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the...
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New York :
Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence,
[1978]
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Table of Contents:
- Silences
- Silences in literature
- One out of twelve : writers who are women in our century
- Rebecca Harding Davis
- Acerbs, asides, amulets, exhumations, sources, deepenings, roundings, expansions
- Silences in literature
- II
- Silences-its varieties
- The work of creation and the circumstances it demands for full functioning
- Subterranean forces-and the work of creation in circumstances enabling full function
- When the claims of creation cannot be primary
- The literary situation
- The writer-woman : one out of twelve
- II
- Blight-its earliest expression
- A sense of wrong voiced
- Literacy
- One out of twelve-the figures
- The baby; the girl-child; the girl; the young writer-woman
- The damnation of women
- The angel in the house
- Freeing the essential angel
- Wives, mothers, enablers
- Blight. The hidden silencer-breakdown
- Hidden blight-professional circumstances
- Hidden blight-some effects of having to counter and encounter harmful treatment and circumstances
- Other obstacles, balks, encumbrances in coming to one's own voice, vision, circumference
- Creativity; potentiality. First generation
- Excerpts from Life in the iron mills
- Miscellany
- Excerpts from My heart laid bare.