Writing mothers, writing daughters : tracing the maternal in stories by American Jewish women /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burstein, Janet
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
Subjects:	American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Mothers and daughters in literature. Jewish women in literature. Motherhood in literature. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Translating immigrant women : writing the manifold self : Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Emma Goldman, Kate Simon
Leaving home and mother : dramas of differentiation : Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Tess Slesinger, Jo Sinclair, Marjorie Duhan Adler, Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Centering the devalued mother : re-vision and re-valuation : Rebekah Kohut, "Leah Morton", Emanie Sachs, Hana Stein, Jo Sinclair, Violet Weingarten, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Jane Lazarre, Phyllis Chesler
Mirroring the mother : the ordeal of narcissism : Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Alix Kates Schulman, Erica Jong, Shelley Steinman List, Rosellen Brown, Camille Baum, Daphne Merkin
Re-storying Jewish women : hearing the mothers, speaking the feminist self : Vivian Gornick, Judith Plaskow, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, Evelyn Torton Beck, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Judith Katz, Blu Greenberg, Nessa Rapaport, E.M. Broner, Kim Chernin.