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Tillie Olsen
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Author : Panthea Reid
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009-12-10
Tillie Olsen written by Panthea Reid and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in Faribault, Minnesota. She relocated to California in 1933 and lived most of her life in San Francisco. From 1962 on, she sojourned frequently in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Santa Cruz, and Soquel, California. She was a 1920s "hell-cat"; a 1930s revolutionary; an early 1940s crusader for equal pay for equal work and a war-relief patriot; an ex-GI's ideal wife in the later 1940s; a victim of FBI surveillance in the 1950s;a civil rights and antiwar advocate during the 1960s and 1970s; and a life-long orator for universal human rights. The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations' founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus. In her classic short story "I Stand Here Ironing" and her groundbreaking Tell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences, Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people's lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women's creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as "Saint Tillie," Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid's artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century's triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.
Silences
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2014-07-22
Silences written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by The Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-22 with Social Science categories.
A landmark survey of disenfranchised literary voices and the forces that seek to silence them—from the influential activist and author of Tell Me a Riddle. With this groundbreaking work, Olsen revolutionized the study of literature by shedding critical light on the writings of marginalized women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors’ letters and diaries, Olsen shows us the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class, or race, has been suppressed through the years. Olsen recounts the torments of Herman Melville, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and the struggles of Olsen’s personal heroine Virginia Woolf, the greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that worked to silence her. First published in 1978, Silences expanded the literary canon and the ways readers engage with literature. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsen’s classic reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction. Bracing and prescient, Silences remains “of primary importance to those who want to understand how art is generated or subverted and to those trying to create it themselves” (Margaret Atwood, The New York Times Book Review). “A valuable book, an angry book, a call to action.” —Maxine Hong Kingston “Silences helped me to keep my sanity many a day.” —Gloria Naylor, author of Mama Day “[Silences is] ‘the Bible.’ I constantly return to it.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street “Silences will, like A Room of One’s Own, be quoted where there is talk of the circumstances in which literature is possible.” —Adrienne Rich, author of Diving into the Wreck
Tell Me A Riddle
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 1995
Tell Me A Riddle written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.
Contains an authoritative text of the story, along with a chronology, critical essays, and a bibliography.
Yonnondio
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2004-10-01
Yonnondio written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-01 with Fiction categories.
Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska. Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life – Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.
Tillie Olsen
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Author : Joanne S. Frye
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1995
Tillie Olsen written by Joanne S. Frye and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the four pieces gathered in her 1962 collection, Tell Me a Riddle - "I Stand Here Ironing", "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" "O Yes", and the title piece - and in the 1970 story "Requa I", Olsen addresses the problem of how to interpret the experiences - or as she would call them, "life comprehensions" - of those living outside the mainstream culture in a form - literature - whose very nature has been defined by that same culture. The result, writes Joanne Frye in this ambitious study of Olsen's short fiction, is a small body of work, with many layers densely packed, that conveys with lyricism and keen perception both the grace and the hardship inherent in people's daily lives. Frye's assessment also includes a comprehensive survey of the scholarship on Olsen as it grew from a scattered, mostly positive response to her artistry in the politically conservative 1950s and early 1960s to a feminist outpouring as the women's movement took hold in the late 1960s and the 1970s. More recent studies of Olsen's work complement the earlier criticism with more direct investigations of its biographical and political underpinnings.
Silences
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Silences written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Declaratie Van Jacobus Hertog Van Monmouth En De Edelen Heeren En Andere Tegenwoordig In Wapenen Tot Bescherming En Handhaviing Van De Protestantse Religie En Privilegien Van Engeland Als Ook Tot Bevrijding Van De Dwinglandy Gepleegt By Jacobus Hertog Van York
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1685*
Declaratie Van Jacobus Hertog Van Monmouth En De Edelen Heeren En Andere Tegenwoordig In Wapenen Tot Bescherming En Handhaviing Van De Protestantse Religie En Privilegien Van Engeland Als Ook Tot Bevrijding Van De Dwinglandy Gepleegt By Jacobus Hertog Van York written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1685* with categories.
Tell Me A Riddle Requa I And Other Works
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2013-09-01
Tell Me A Riddle Requa I And Other Works written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-01 with Fiction categories.
A century after her birth, Tillie Olsen’s writing is as relevant as when it first appeared; indeed, the clarity and passion of her vision and style have, if anything, become even more striking over time. Collected here for the first time are several of Olsen’s nonfiction pieces about the 1930s, early journalism pieces, and short fiction, including the four beautifully crafted, highly celebrated stories originally published as Tell Me a Riddle: “I Stand Here Ironing,” “Hey Sailor, What Ship?,” “O Yes,” and “Tell Me a Riddle.” Also included, for the first time since it appeared in the 1971 Best American Short Stories, is “Requa I.” In these stories, as in all of her work, Olsen set a new standard for the treatment of women and the poor and for the depiction of their lives and circumstances. In her hands, the hard truths about motherhood and marriage, domestic life, labor, and political conviction found expression in language of such poetic intensity and depth that its influence continues to be felt today. An introduction by Olsen’s granddaughter, the poet Rebekah Edwards, and a foreword by her daughter Laurie Olsen provide a personal and generational context for the author’s work.
Tillie Olsen And A Feminist Spiritual Vision
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Author : Elaine Neil Orr
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1987
Tillie Olsen And A Feminist Spiritual Vision written by Elaine Neil Orr and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Feminism categories.
Tell Me A Riddle
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Author : Tillie Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Delta
Release Date : 1989
Tell Me A Riddle written by Tillie Olsen and has been published by Delta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
This collection of four stories, "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, what Ship?," "O Yes," and "Tell me a Riddle," had become an American classic. Since the title novella won the O. Henry Award in 1961, the stories have been anthologized over a hundred times, made into three films, translated into thirteen languages, and - most important - once read, they abide in the hearts of their readers.