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Informationen zum Autor Rosenfelt, Deborah S Klappentext ?Tell Me a Riddle? renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present. Zusammenfassung �Tell Me a Riddle� renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt Chronology Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen Background to the Story: Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen Critical Essays: The Circumstances of Silence: Literary Representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha Past - Linda Ray Pratt From the Thirties: Tillie Olsen and the Radical Tradition - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt A Feminist Spiritual Vision - Elaine Neil Orr Death Labors - Joanne Trautmann Banks Motherhood as a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis "No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner Selected Bibliography Permissions
