Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers

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Author: Kathleen C. Kelly

ISBN-10: 0874136113

ISBN-13: 9780874136111

Category: American & Canadian Literature

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Preface9Introduction: Erasing and Embracing the Past: America and Its Jewish Writers - Men and Women17"In Life I Am Not Free": The Writer Cynthia Ozick and Her Jewish Obligations48"Daughters of Refugees of the Ongoing-Universal-Endless-Upheaval": Anne Roiphe and the Quest for Narrative Power in Jewish American Women's Fiction80Anne Roiphe: Finding Her America97Responding to an Old Story: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Leslea Newman, and Francine Prose112Erica Jong: Becoming a Jewish Writer126The "Pin with which to Stick Yourself": The Holocaust in Jewish American Women's Writing141Norma Rosen: An American Literary Response to the Holocaust160Resisting the Melting Pot: The Jewish Back-Story in the Fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz175Adrienne Rich: "Stuck to earth"194Kael and Farewell209Wendy Wasserstein and the Crisis of (Jewish) Identity226Immersions in the Postmodern: The Fiction of Allegra Goodman247Writing Jewish Fiction In and Out of the Multicultural Context268List of Contributors275Index278