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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jelen, Sheila E

Titel

Reading and Writing Women: Minority Discourse in Feminist Jewish Literary Studies

Ist Teil von

• Prooftexts, 2005-01, Vol.25 (1), p.195-209

Ort / Verlag

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Since the 1970s, literary feminism has been producing important works, such as Gilbert and Gubar's Madwoman in the Attic (1979) and Alicia Ostriker's Stealing the Language (1986), but studies of modern Jewish literature written from a feminist perspective or about female authors have only gathered momentum since the late 1980s.2 Esther Fuchs's Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (1987) was among the first in-depth studies of the image of women in Israeli fiction. According to Balin, Markel-Mosessohn "was one of many women whose fear of disapprobation caused her to consider withdrawing from the official literary scene" (36). [...]Parush, as a literary scholar, pays surprisingly little attention to the literary aspects of most of the sources that she employs. In the list to follow, I am limiting my bibliographical remarks to those works that deal almost exclusively with modern Jewish literary production. [...]books such as Nehama Aschkenasy's Eve's Journey: Feminine Images in the Hebraic Literary Tradition (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986); Shirley Kaufman, Galit Hasan-Rokem, and Tamar S. Hess, eds., The Defiant Muse: Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present (New York: Feminist Press, 1999); and other more historically broad works of criticism, anthologies of essays, and primary works are not enumerated here. 3 Esther Fuchs, Israeli Mythogynies: Women in Contemporary Hebrew Fiction (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987); Dan Miron, Founding Mothers, Stepsisters [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1991); Naomi B. Sokoloff, Anne Lapidus Lerner, and Anita Norich, eds., Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1992); Judith R. Baskin, ed., Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).