Silences (9781558614406)
Paperback 368 pages English Apr 01, 2003
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Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.Introduction by Shelley Fisher FishkinFirst published in 1978, Silences single-handedly revolutionized the literary canon. In this classic work, now back in print, Olsen broke open the study of literature and discovered a lost continent-the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authors' letters and diaries we learn the many ways the creative spirit, especially in those disadvantaged by gender, class and race, can be silenced. Olsen recounts the torments of Melville, the crushing weight of criticism on Thomas Hardy, the shame that brought Willa Cather to a dead halt, and struggles of Virginia Woolf, Olsen's heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition includes Olsen's now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface.
- Author:
- Tillie Olsen
- Publisher:
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Publication Date:
- Apr 01, 2003
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1558614400
- ISBN-13:
- 9781558614406