Silences
Olsen, Tillie, 1913-1980
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Total copies: 2
Subject: Tille Olsen's 'Silences' revolutionised literary studies and inspired an explosion of new creative voices. By exploring the social and economic conditions that make creativity possible, Olsen sheds new light into the gaps in the literary landscape and the canon. She reveals that working-class people, people of colour, and all women have in fact always written -- though their work has been officially ignored -- and she examines the forces they struggled against in order to create, forces that led in many cases to premature silence. With fascinating testimony from authors' diaries and letters, Olsen takes us inside the artistic process, examining the effects of poverty, family duties (especially motherhood), political and religious censorship, and rigid literary norms on writers ranging from Thomas Hardy and Herman Melville to Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath. For those disadvantaged by gender, class, or race, these obstacles loom even larger.
Main title:
Silences / Tillie Olsen.
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Imprint:
London : Virago, 1980.
Collation:
(298)p ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published, New York , Delacorte, 1978.Includes index.
ISBN:
0860681580
Dewey class:
808.020922AR.2.01OLS820.99287Ol1
LC class:
PN451
Local class:
AR.2.01/OLS
Language:
English
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Index terms:
Writers Biographies
BRN:
838547