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SilencesTillie Olsen

Silences

Tillie Olsen
1978306 pages
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10 editions · 2 languages
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"In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the acknowledged great and those who ceased to write ... Tillie Olsen focuses on the silences that are most immediate to her own experience: how a negative literary climate, childbearing and rearing shape a woman's writing life"--Cover.

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10 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 1987
    Random House, Inc. · 320 pages · 9780860681588
  • Hardcover · English · 1984
    Peter Smith Pub Inc · 9780844660912
  • Other · English · 2014
    Feminist Press at The City University of New York · 9781558618794
  • Other · English · 2003
    The Feminist Press · 320 pages · 9781558614413
  • Other · English · 1983
    Laurel · 330 pages · 9780440383376
  • Other · English · 1980
    Virago · 298 pages · 9780860681571
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