Tillie Olsen,Shelley Fisher Fishkin
First 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 continentâ€”the writing of women and working-class people. From the excavated testimony of authorsâ€™ 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, Olsenâ€™s heroine and greatest exemplar of a writer who confronted the forces that would silence her. This 25th-anniversary edition includes Olsenâ€™s now infamous reading lists of forgotten authors and a new introduction and author preface.
Nonfiction,Feminism,Language,Writing,Writing,Essays,Womens,Literature,Criticism,Literary Criticism,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,Classics
Silences