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9780813521374

Tell Me a Riddle

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813521374

  • ISBN10:

    0813521378

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-06-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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Summary

"Tell Me a Riddle" renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present. Deborah Rosenfelt's introduction and the essays in this volume survey the critical reception of this highly acclaimed story, analyze its biographical and historical contexts, examine the text's language, structure, spiritual and moral significance, and illuminate Olsen's relationship to the American midwest, the American left, and the Jewish enlightenment tradition. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Olsen's life, an authoritative text of "Tell Me a Riddle," relevant essays by Olsen, seven critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are: Joanne Trautmann Banks, Constance Coiner, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Mara Faulkner, Elaine Orr, Linda Ray Pratt, and Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(27)
Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
Chronology
27(6)
Tell Me a Riddle
33(272)
Tillie Olsen
Background to the Story
Silences in Literature
87(18)
Tillie Olsen
Personal Statement
105(8)
Tillie Olsen
Critical Essays
The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past
113(20)
Linda Ray Pratt
From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition
133(44)
Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
A Feminist Spiritual Vision
177(22)
Elaine Neil Orr
Death Labors
199(14)
Joanne Trautmann Banks
Motherhood as Source and Silencer of Creativity
213(30)
Mara Faulkner
To ``Bear My Mother's Name'': Kunstlerromane by Women Writers
243(28)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
``No One's Private Ground'': A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle
271(34)
Constance Coiner
Selected Bibliography 305(4)
Permissions 309

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