Arrogant Beggar
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Arrogant Beggar
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Author : Anzia Yezierska
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1996-02-08
Arrogant Beggar written by Anzia Yezierska and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-02-08 with Fiction categories.
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar’s scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska’s most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she leaves the impoverished conditions of New York’s Lower East Side and tries to rise in the world. Portraying Adele’s experiences at the Hellman Home for Working Girls, the first half of the novel exposes the “sickening farce” of institutionalized charity while portraying the class tensions that divided affluent German American Jews from more recently arrived Russian American Jews. The second half of the novel takes Adele back to her ghetto origins as she explores an alternative model of philanthropy by opening a restaurant that combines the communitarian ideals of Old World shtetl tradition with the contingencies of New World capitalism. Within the context of this radical message, Yezierska revisits the themes that have made her work famous, confronting complex questions of ethnic identity, assimilation, and female self-realization. Katherine Stubbs’s introduction provides a comprehensive and compelling historical, social, and literary context for this extraordinary novel and discusses the critical reaction to its publication in light of Yezierska’s biography and the once much-publicized and mythologized version of her life story. Unavailable for over sixty years, Arrogant Beggar will be enjoyed by general readers of fiction and be of crucial importance for feminist critics, students of ethnic literature. It will also prove an exciting and richly rewarding text for students and scholars of Jewish studies, immigrant literature, women’s writing, American history, and working-class fiction.
The Tenement Saga
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Author : Sanford Sternlicht
language : en
Publisher: Terrace Books
Release Date : 2004-12-16
The Tenement Saga written by Sanford Sternlicht and has been published by Terrace Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers. Anzia Yezierska, Abraham Cahan, Michael Gold, and Henry Roth, and others defined this new "Jewish homeland" and paved the way for the later great Jewish American novelists. Sternlicht discusses the role of women, the Yiddish Theater, secular values, the struggle between generations, street crime, politics, labor unions, and the importance of newspapers and periodicals. He documents the decline of Yiddish culture as these immigrants blended into what they called "The Golden Land."
Performing Americanness
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Author : Catherine Rottenberg
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2008
Performing Americanness written by Catherine Rottenberg and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
A comparative analysis of modern African-American and Jewish-American narratives
Culture Makers
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Author : Amy Koritz
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2009
Culture Makers written by Amy Koritz and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with American literature categories.
In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in economic and social organization: the emergence of rationalized work processes and expert professionalism; the advent of mass markets and the consequent necessity of consumerism as a behavior and ideology; and the urbanization of the population, in concert with the invention of urban planning and the recognition of specifically urban subjectivities. Koritz analyzes plays by Eugene O'Neill, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, and Rachel Crothers; popular dance forms of the 1920s and the modern dance and choreography of Martha Graham; and literature by Anzia Yezierska, John Dos Passos, and Lewis Mumford.
Ethnic Modernisms
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Author : D. Konzett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2002-11-08
Ethnic Modernisms written by D. Konzett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists. As a result, they offer an alternative aesthetics of modernism which is centered around the innovative narration of displacement. Her analysis of the complexities of language and form and impact of the complex and ambiguous formal styles of the three writers on the history of their reception is a model of the effective integration of formalist, historicist, and theoretical perspectives in literary criticism.
Gustav
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Author : Graham Pratt
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-03-28
Gustav written by Graham Pratt and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-28 with Fiction categories.
The Rothenburgs were an old German Family.They had run a Wine Business and managed the vineyards in Bad Rothenburg since 1761. They saw the Old Manor House in Westhampton was for sale.It was an Eighteenth century building ,but now it was in need of restoration ,But it was just what the Rothenburgs wanted .The way to expand their Wine Business into Great Britain and a quiet life for Helmut, Hildegard and their son Gustav Gustav was going to divide public opinion in Westhampton because of his arrogant ways These are a collection of short stories about the Rothenburgs first year in Westhampton, and the events that Gustav became involved with especially finding the love of his life Robert and their Civil Partnership.
The Fabric Of American Literary Realism
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Author : Babak Elahi
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
The Fabric Of American Literary Realism written by Babak Elahi and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Social Science categories.
This critical study traces the connections between the rising economic importance of the garment industry and the advent of a powerful movement towards literary realism in American fiction. Examining the works of Henry James, Theodor Dreiser, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Willa Cather and the shifting of the American ideal from the "homespun" to the "ready made," it explains how that cultural and psychological change appeared in the new literature of the nation.
Immigrant Women
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Author : Maxine S. Seller
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1994-07-01
Immigrant Women written by Maxine S. Seller and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with Social Science categories.
Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.
The Mercy Seat Or Thoughts On Prayer
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Author : Augustus Charles Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
The Mercy Seat Or Thoughts On Prayer written by Augustus Charles Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with Prayer categories.
The Reformer A Religious Work Published Monthly Edited By T R Gates Vol 1 7
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829
The Reformer A Religious Work Published Monthly Edited By T R Gates Vol 1 7 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829 with categories.
