Mothers and daughters -- the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative -- are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western ...
Husband and wife, parents and grandparents, Grace Paley and Robert Nichols are also two writers and activists who constantly engage the world. This collection, juxtaposing stories and poems by each of them, yields revealing comparisons while validating the truth that artists can write politically in many different ways. "Here and Somewhere Else" ...
Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary Modernity" and newly commissioned essays on ...
This book offers an expanded generic model of the study of female development as seen through 19th and 20th century novels and psychoanalytic research.
This volume contains a selection of essays which proposes strategies for practising conflict in feminism and explores the most critically divisive issues in feminism today. The papers analyze how particular debates have worked both for and against feminist thought. Contributors include Elizabeth Abel, King-Kok Cheung, Mary Childers, Nancy Cott, ...
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in ...
Family photographs, snapshots and portraits, affixed to the refrigerator or displayed in gilded frames, crammed into shoeboxes or catalogued in albums, they preserve ancestral history and perpetuate memories. Indeed, photography has become the family's primary means of self-representation. In this book Marianne Hirsch uncovers both the deception ...
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in ...
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