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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Yezierska"”.
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The Story Less Told: Representations in the Inter-War Years of the American White Working Class by Four Female Authors
… the interwar years by four female authors: Anzia Yezierska, Fielding Burke, Grace Lumpkin, and Myra Page. While a general overview of these authors’ biographies, writing styles, themes, and approaches to issues surrounding race and religion will be provided, the thesis’ main focuses are as …
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
… Writers discussed include Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Tobenkin, Michael Gold, Norman Podhoretz, and Saul Bellow. Chapter III is an in-depth study of Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), a rags-to-riches story of a poor immigrant's rise up the ladder of success in the …
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East Side Story: Jewish American Writing In New York City, 1898-1934
… writers in this thesis--Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Michael Gold and Henry Roth--share an awareness of the complexities inherent in imagining and depicting a specific space and in transposing these difficulties into the written word. The conditions of these writers, using the language of …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… and demonstrate how Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and F. Scott Fitzgerald trace these standards of whiteness and the inevitable failure of such racial: and implicitly gendered) refinement. Though critical literature has been slow to consider the role of race for these authors, I reveal …
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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Willa Cather, Anzia Yezierska, and Alice Childress, I demonstrate how the figures of women’s work were forged in relation to each other in order to apprehend the elaborate and racially segregated system of women workers engaged in the labor of social reproduction. …