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From: How We Found America: Reading Gender Through East European Immigrant Narratives[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Zaborowska seeks to explore the often voiced questions of why Yezierska's stories and novels typically end with "clichéd conclusions," rather than with "a defense of a single...
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From: Anzia Yezierska[(essay date 1982) In the following essay, Schoen presents a thematic overview of the stories in Hungry Hearts, including a discussion of autobiographical elements in them.] The stories and narrative essays included in...
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From: Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Koritz discusses Yezierska's ambivalence over assimilation--particularly her fear that achieving American "success" would mean distancing herself from her roots--and the ways in...
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From: Journal of the Short Story in English[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Stone maintains that the female Jewish "voice" in Yezierska's fiction had a profound influence on the works of later Jewish-American women writers, in particular Grace...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date March 2003) In the following essay, Pascual investigates the metaphorical significance of the word "hunger" in Yezierska's fiction, claiming that the author wrote "to appease the pain of hunger of her ghetto...
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From: MELUS[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Stubbs discusses Yezierska's different representations of clothing, specifically as a commodity that reinforces social class distinctions in early twentieth-century...
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From: Arrogant Beggar[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, taken from her introduction to Yezierska's Arrogant Beggar, Stubbs highlights the historical factors and the aspects of Yezierska's subject matter and literary style that...