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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: The Tenement Saga: The Lower East Side and Early Jewish American Writers[(essay date 2004) In the following essay, Sternlicht traces the rise and fall of Yezierska’s literary career and observes the strengths and weaknesses of her prose, much of which was based on her own experiences or...
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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: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Pavletich contends that in her short stories Yezierska places "a rhetorical emphasis" on her characters' "affective natures" and "manipulates the figure of the...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Fishbein regards Red Ribbon on a White Horse as a "deceptive work," one in which Yezierska intentionally conflates fiction and autobiography in order to deceive her readers and...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Sachs notes the significance of finster gelichter, or "bitter humor," in Yezierska's fiction, focusing especially on the character of Hanneh Breineh from the stories "My Own...
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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: Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation[(essay date 2002) In the following excerpt, Konzett assesses the novels Salome of the Tenements,Bread Givers,Arrogant Beggar, and All I Could Never Be in order to trace Yezierska's attempt throughout her career to...
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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: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Golub emphasizes the importance of hunger and food as a central metaphor in Yezierska's writings.] There is a new revival about, owing to which the fiction of Anzia Yezierska...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date summer 2005) In the following essay, Harrison-Kahan situates Yezierska's work not within the tradition of other writers of the Jewish immigrant experience, such as Mary Antin, but in "the modernist milieu"...
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From: Studies in American Jewish Literature[(essay date 1997) In the following essay, Kraver applies Sigmund Freud's theories on "the social and cultural psyche" to "help explain the often unsatisfying, if not tragic, endings that characterize so many of...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall 1980) In the following essay, Schoen highlights what she regards as the critical misreadings inherent in biographical assessments of Yezierska's fiction, asserting that Yezierska "was not an illiterate...
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From: Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Goldblatt examines works by Yezierska, Tillie Olsen, and Allegra Goodman to analyze the “whitening” of Jewish immigrant mothers and the resultant changing relationship between...
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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...
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From: Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, von Bardeleben studies how Ozick and other Jewish American writers of Eastern European descent have attempted to integrate their “sites of memory” into American national...
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From: American Literature[(essay date September 1997) In the following essay, Konzett studies Yezierska's use of immigrant English in the story collection Hungry Hearts to demonstrate the author's ambivalent views toward assimilation of outside...