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Daughters of Valor: Contemporary Jewish American Women Writers »

Authors: Kathleen C. Kelly, Ben Siegel
ISBN-13: 9780874136111, ISBN-10: 0874136113
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Date Published: February 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface	9
	Introduction: Erasing and Embracing the Past: America and Its Jewish Writers - Men and Women	17
	"In Life I Am Not Free": The Writer Cynthia Ozick and Her Jewish Obligations	48
	"Daughters of Refugees of the Ongoing-Universal-Endless-Upheaval": Anne Roiphe and the Quest for Narrative Power in Jewish American Women's Fiction	80
	Anne Roiphe: Finding Her America	97
	Responding to an Old Story: Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Leslea Newman, and Francine Prose	112
	Erica Jong: Becoming a Jewish Writer	126
	The "Pin with which to Stick Yourself": The Holocaust in Jewish American Women's Writing	141
	Norma Rosen: An American Literary Response to the Holocaust	160
	Resisting the Melting Pot: The Jewish Back-Story in the Fiction of Lynne Sharon Schwartz	175
	Adrienne Rich: "Stuck to earth"	194
	Kael and Farewell	209
	Wendy Wasserstein and the Crisis of (Jewish) Identity	226
	Immersions in the Postmodern: The Fiction of Allegra Goodman	247
	Writing Jewish Fiction In and Out of the Multicultural Context	268
	List of Contributors	275
	Index	278