LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors
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Matrilineal Dissent
Publication Date: May 2024
Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing...
"Black People Are My Business"
Publication Date: September 2020
"Black People Are My Businessis a wonderful addition to any reader's list, especially those interested in African American literary and cultural studies.
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Publication Date: January 2016
Readers and scholars of Jewish, American, and Hebrew literature and cultural history, as well as those interested in poetry, gender, and women's studies will enjoy this unique bilingual edition.
Acts of Angry Writing
Publication Date: December 2015
Its rich discussion of performativity and speech acts theory bridges the gap between the fields of literary theory, law, and citizenship.
From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl
Publication Date: November 2015
Fairy-tale scholars and readers interested in issues of literary and artistic adaptation will enjoy this volume.
Jewish Women Writers in Britain
Publication Date: December 2014
The extraordinary range of responses to Jewish culture and history in the work of these writers will appeal to literary scholars and readers interested in Jewish women's history.
Reading, Translating, Rewriting
Publication Date: November 2013
Reading, Translating, Rewriting is informative reading for students and teachers of fairy-tale studies and translation studies.
Jonestown
Publication Date: January 2011
Readers of poetry will appreciate the questions of religion, race, nationality, power, civil rights, sexuality, and identity that Gillespie engages through the enigma of Jonestown.
Women Remaking American Judaism
Publication Date: August 2007
Women Remaking American Judaism will be of interest to both scholars of Jewish history and women’s studies.
Voices of the Lost and Found
Publication Date: May 2007
This adventurous and memorable collection of short fiction will appeal to a diverse audience.
Women of the Word
Publication Date: October 1994
Written in a period when Jewish women writers internationally are creating a wealth of diverse literary works, these essays take note of the short time during which Jewish women's writing has flourished and inspire readers with the richness of the literature that such writers have already produced.
