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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: American Literary Dimensions: Poems and Essays in Honor of Melvin J. Friedman[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Gelfant considers how Yezierska employed the figure of Hanneh Breineh, a colorful and "volatile" character that appears in a number of her short stories, "to dramatize--or more...
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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: MELUS[(essay date summer 1996) In the following essay, Shapiro examines Yezierska's treatment of the theme of "the Jewish woman and shaygets"--the love affair between "a poor immigrant Jewish woman" and "a prominent,...
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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 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: 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: 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: 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: Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century[(essay date 1991) In the following excerpt, taken from a broader study of the works of Yezierska, Ellen Glasgow, and Edith Summers Kelley, Ammons traces the central conflict in Yezierska's fiction as her effort "to...
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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: 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: 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...