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Olsen, Tillie --- Criticism and interpretation

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In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920's "hell-cat"; a 1930's revolutionary; an early 1940's crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GI's ideal wife in the later 1940's; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950's;a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960's and 1970's; and a life-long orator for universal human rights. The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations' founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus. In her classic short story "I Stand Here Ironing" and her groundbreaking Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences, Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people's lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women's creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as "Saint Tillie," Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid's artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century's triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.

Women authors, American --- Olsen, Tillie. --- American women authors --- Lerner, Tillie --- Olson, Tillie

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ROMAN AMERICAIN --- ECRIVAINS ET LECTEURS --- SALINGER (JEROME DAVID), 1919 --- -ELLISON (RALPH), 1913 --- -OLSEN (TILLIE), 1912 --- -ROTH (HENRY), 1906-1995 --- 20E SIECLE --- ETATS-UNIS --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- ECRIVAINS ET LECTEURS --- SALINGER (JEROME DAVID), 1919 --- -ELLISON (RALPH), 1913 --- -OLSEN (TILLIE), 1912 --- -ROTH (HENRY), 1906-1995 --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS --- 20E SIECLE

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Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry and drama, the author offers a readable guide to the achievements of a key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature.Key FeaturesA student guide to major writers in post-war American literatureA chapter on each of the 5 main writersCovers theoretical aspects -- the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction -- in an easily accessible wayOffers background material to situate the work of the writers

American literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism --- Cahan, Abraham --- Criticism and interpretation --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Roth, Henry --- Bellow, Saul --- Jong, Erica --- Paley, Grace --- Olsen, Tillie --- Miller, Arthur --- Kushner, Tony --- Ozick, Cynthia --- Fiedler, Leslie Aaron --- Auster, Paul --- Allen, Woody --- Potok, Chaim, 1929 --- Roth, Philip --- 20th century --- Jews --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life.

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This work explores the relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the US welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of social housekeeping in order to call for state protection and regulation of the home.

American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Politics and literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Literature and society --- Public welfare --- Grotesque in literature. --- Welfare state in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- United States --- Grotesque in literature --- Welfare state in literature --- Barnes, Djuna --- Toomer, Jean --- Ferber, Edna --- Olsen, Tillie