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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.Description: viii, 326 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0195073061 (alk. paper)
  • 019507307X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/9287 20
LOC classification:
  • PS147 .L57 1994
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.