Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939

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"Focusing on interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illuminates how women authors leveraged prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal norms of Jewish textual authority, reconceptualize Jewish cultural belonging, and contribute to Jewish literary modernity"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schachter, Allison, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Modernism (Literature)
Jewish women authors > History and criticism.
Yiddish fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Yiddish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Hebrew fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Hebrew fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Écrivaines juives > Histoire et critique.
Roman hébraïque > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature hébraïque moderne > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Yiddish fiction.
Jewish women authors.
Hebrew literature, Modern.
Hebrew fiction > Women authors.
Hebrew fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Women, Modernism, and Jewish Modernity
  • The Disruptive Power of Prose
  • Fradl Shtok's Aesthetic Desire
  • Dvora Baron's Aesthetic Labor
  • The Minority Literature Question: Literature and Political and Cultural Belonging in the Interwar Period
  • Leah Goldberg's Orientalist Bind
  • Elisheva Bikhovsky's Minority Cosmopolitanism
  • Debora Vogel's Montage Democracy
  • Conclusion Grace Paley's Modernist Legacy.

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