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Jewish women writers in Britain /

Against a background of enormous cultural change during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writing by British Jewish women grappled with shifting meanings of Jewish identity, the pressure of social norms, and questions of assimilation. Until recently, however, the distinctive experiences and pe...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Valman, Nadia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feeling at Home: Jewish Women Writers in Britain, 1830-2010; 1. From Domestic Paragon to Rebellious Daughter: Victorian Jewish Women Novelists; 2. "And we are not what they have been": Anglo-Jewish Women Poets, 1839-1923; 3. Worldly Exile: Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"; 4. Betty Miller and the Marrano Self; 5. "Almost an Englishwoman": Jewish Women Refugee Writers in Britain; 6. Forgotten Words: Trauma, Memory, and Herstory in Eva Figes's Fiction.
  • 7. Otherness and Transcendence: The Poetry of Ruth Fainlight and Elaine Feinstein8. The Trauma of Assimilation: Anita Brookner as Jewish Novelist; 9. Dramatizing Britain's Holocaust Memory; 10. Jewish Mothers and Jewish Memory in Contemporary Memoirs; 11. Opening Spaces: Sue Hubbard's Poetry of Place; Contributors; Index.