Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles
Autor Panthea Reiden Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2011
InTillie
Olsen:
One
Woman,
Many
Riddles,
Panthea
Reid
examines
the
complex
life
of
this
iconic
feminist
hero
and
twentieth-century
literary
giant.
Born
in
Omaha,
Nebraska,
Tillie
Olsen
spent
her
young
adulthood
there,
in
Kansas
City,
and
in
Faribault,
Minnesota.
She
relocated
to
California
in
1933
and
lived
most
of
her
life
in
San
Francisco.
From
1962
on,
she
sojourned
frequently
in
Massachusetts,
New
Hampshire,
Santa
Cruz,
and
Soquel,
California.
She
was
a
1920s
"hell-cat";
a
1930s
revolutionary;
an
early
1940s
crusader
for
equal
pay
for
equal
work
and
a
war-relief
patriot;
an
ex-GI's
ideal
wife
in
the
later
1940s;
a
victim
of
FBI
surveillance
in
the
1950s;a
civil
rights
and
antiwar
advocate
during
the
1960s
and
1970s;
and
a
life-long
orator
for
universal
human
rights.
The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations' founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus.
In her classic short story "I Stand Here Ironing" and her groundbreakingTell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences,Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people's lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women's creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as "Saint Tillie," Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism.
Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid's artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century's triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also byTillie Olsen.
The enigma of Tillie Olsen is intertwined with that of the twentieth century. From the rebellions in Czarist Russia, through the terrors of the Depression and the hopes of the New Deal, to World War II, the Nuremberg Trials, and the United Nations' founding, to the cold war and House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, to later progressive and repressive movements, the story of Olsen's life brings remote events into focus.
In her classic short story "I Stand Here Ironing" and her groundbreakingTell Me a Riddle, Yonnondido, and Silences,Olsen scripted powerful, moving prose about ordinary people's lives, exposing the pervasive effects of sexism, racism, and classism and elevating motherhood and women's creativity into topics of study. Popularly referred to as "Saint Tillie," Olsen was hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism.
Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and countless interviews, Reid's artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century's triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also byTillie Olsen.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813551876
ISBN-10: 0813551870
Pagini: 484
Ilustrații: 25 illustrations. 25 photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813551870
Pagini: 484
Ilustrații: 25 illustrations. 25 photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
Panthea
Reid,
a
professor
emerita
of
English
from
Louisiana
State
University,
is
the
author
ofArt
and
Affection:
A
Life
of
Virginia
WoolfandWilliam
Faulkner:
The
Abstract
and
the
Actual.
Recenzii
"Attempting
to
solve
'the
riddle'
of
Tillie
Lerner
Olsen,
literary
scholar
Reid
paints
a
warts-and-all
portrait
of
the
woman
who
became
an
iconic
feminist
and
admired
writer.
Reid
paints
a
deftly
engrossing,
nuanced,
and
meticulously
researched
portrait
of
a
perplexing,
larger-than-life
woman."
"Reid
sets
out
to
interrogate
the
heroic
feminist
image
that
adorned
Olsen
in
her
last
decades,
to
fill
in
the
neglected,
blurred,
or
falsified
facts
of
her
long
life,
and
to
answer
riddles—most
notably,
'why
didn't
Tillie
write?'.
An
ambitious
and
obsessively
well-researched
biography."
"Reid
brings
her
extraordinarily
complex
and
endlessly
perplexing
subject
to
vitally
disarming
life
and
her
book
provides
substantively
more
for
Olsenites
than
any
previous
attempt.
Tillie
Olsen
is
rich—and
riddled
with
answers."
"A
biographical
bombshell.
Reid's
meticulous
research
undoes
the
feminist
legend
of
Saint
Tillie
and
replaces
it
with
a
complex,
even-handed
account
of
a
passionate,
often
devious,
and
always
ideological
woman
writer.
"
"
"Panthea
Reid
tells
an
enthralling,
complicated
story
of
a
maddening,
charismatic
writer;
her
self-creation,
self-destruction,
and
self-promotion;
and
her
profound
social
commitments."
"Panthea
Reid's
quest
for
the
truth
about
the
courageous,
egotistical,
generous,
maddening,
and
difficult
Tillie
Olsen
is
downright
heroic.Tillie
Olsen:
One
Woman,
Many
Riddlesis
biography
at
its
fascinating
best."
"Reid
concludes
her
book
with
a
sense
of
conflicted
loss.
While
she
wept
at
Olsen's
death,
'I
have
never
adored
Tillie,'
she
admits.
Reverence
hampers
facts,
she
says,
then
adds,
'My
biographer's
obligation
.
.
.is
to
tell
the
truth
as
artfully
as
possible
and
not
to
let
love
hamper
honesty.'
No
wise
reader
could
ask
for
anything
more."
"Brilliant.
Professor
Reid
sympathetically
and
critically
describers
the
strengths
and
foibles
of
the
iconic
Olsen.
Her
intimate
revelations
are
pertinent
to
Tillie's
complex
character."
"Biographer
Panthea
Reid's
extensive
research
reveals
that
some
accounts
of
Olsen's
life
are
more
fable
than
fact.
While
Reid
solves
some
riddles,
she
creates
additional
ones
for
admirers
and
scholars
to
ponder
in
the
years
ahead."
"Panthea
Reid
chronicles
a
journey
for
knowledge
and
social
justice
that
spans
the
entire
20th
century
and
follows
the
events
that
made
the
times
momentous.
Olsen
is
a
biography
of
rare
humanity.
It
is
profoundly
real.
Reid
has
written
a
marvelously
evocative book."
evocative book."
"This
book
is
well-researched
and
provides
an
in-depth
look
at
Olsen's
life.
Ried definitely knocks Olsen off any saintly pedestalàbut she does this without lessening the impact of Olsen's work."
Ried definitely knocks Olsen off any saintly pedestalàbut she does this without lessening the impact of Olsen's work."
"A
remarkable
amount
of
material
on
the
life
of
Olsen.
Students
of
Olsen's
work
will
find
this
a
valuable
guide
to
the
autobiographical
roots
of
Olsen's
fiction."
"Reid
has
succeeded
in
giving
us
a
well-rounded
and
well-grounded
picture
of
Tillie
Olsen.
This
book
is
a
major
achievement
in
offering
a
balanced
appraisal
of
Tillie
Olsen,
who
was
revered
by
some
and
reviled
by
others."
"Superb
and
painstaking
biography.
Reid
artfully
depicts
a
tortured
writer
whose
concern
for
oppressed
masses
often
eclipsed
her
duty
to
intimates."
"Get
ready
for
the
unflinching,
warts-and-all
story
of
Tillie
Lerner
Olsen.
Reid
unwraps
the
riddle
of
Olsen's
complex
personality
in
this
fascinating
biography."
"Great
lives
challenge
and
empower
an
intelligent,
determined
biographer.
Tillie
Olsen
lived
a
great
life
to
which
Panthea
Reid
does
full
justice.
"
"
"A
feminist
icon,
beloved
of
the
left
and
also
a
superb
delineator
of
what
blocks
writers
from
writing,
Tillie
Olsen
is
deserving
of
this
penetrating
biography,
the
first
book
to
unravel
the
riddle
of
a
life
devoted
to
and
tormented
by
writing."
"Panthea
Reid's
ten-year
odyssey
in
writing
a
definitive
biography
of
this
enigmatic
woman
has
been
long
awaited
by
western
literature
and
history
scholars
alike.Tillie
Olsenwill
delight
readers."
Descriere
InTillie
Olsen:
One
Woman,
Many
Riddles,
Panthea
Reid
examines
the
complex
life
of
this
iconic
feminist
hero
and
twentieth-century
literary
giant,
hailed
by
many
as
the
mother
of
modern
feminism.
Based
on
diaries,
letters,
manuscripts,
private
documents,
resurrected
public
records,
and
ountless
interviews,
Reid’s
artfully
crafted
biography
untangles
some
of
the
puzzling
knots
of
the
last
century’s
triumphs
and
failures
and
speaks
truth
to
legend,
correcting
fabrications
and
myths
about
and
also
by
Tillie
Olsen.