BIBFRAME Work

Title

Matrilineal dissent : women writers and Jewish American literary history

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Harrison-Kahan, Lori (editor)
• Walters, Ashley (editor)
• Bushnell, Annie Atura (editor)

Subject

• Écrits de femmes américains--Histoire et critique (RVM)
• Femmes dans la littérature (RVM)
• Jewish women authors (LCSH)
• Femmes et littérature (RVM)
• Juives--Vie intellectuelle (RVM)
• Women and literature (LCSH)
• Femmes dans le judaïsme (RVM)
• Women in literature (LCSH)
• American literature--Women authors--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Jewish women--Intellectual life (LCSH)
• American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Écrivaines juives (RVM)
• Women in Judaism (LCSH)
• Littérature américaine--Auteurs juifs--Histoire et critique (RVM)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

LCC: PS153.J4 M32 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers' wide-ranging contributions to American literary culture from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Matrilineal Dissent features innovative considerations of contemporary autofiction, graphic narratives, and novels by Mizrahi writers as well as middlebrow, Progressive Era, and second-wave feminist literature. Authors discussed herein such as Roz Chast, Erica Jong, Annie Nathan Meyer, and Adrienne Rich challenge monolithic representations of Jewishness and gender while imagining radical alternatives. By tracing a matrilineal literary history, this book dissents from readers and critics who continue to describe women's contributions as mere commentaries on and correctives to male-dominated canons. Simultaneously, this volume troubles the politics of inheritance, continuity, and lineage to underscore the ways that literary traditions like Jewishness and gender mutually constitutive and continually in flux. Collectively, contributors reframe Jewish American literary history through feminist approaches that have revolutionized the field, from intersectionality and the #MeToo movement to queer theory and disability studies. Examining both canonical and lesser-known texts, this collection asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?"--Publisher's description.

Table of Contents

Women Who Wouldn't: Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Women's Proletarian Literature and Ethnoracial Displacement / Ashley Walters -- Where the Shoe Pinches: Appropriation and Allyship in Annie Nathan Meyer's Anti-Lynching Literature / Lori Harrison-Kahan -- The Making of a White Sophisticate: Marian Spitzer and Middlebrow Self-Presentation / Jessica Kirzane -- "Oyb me zukht gefint men": Translating Yiddish Literature Hiding in Plain Sight / Rachel Rubinstein -- The Poetics of Conversation: Adrienne Rich's and Audre Lorde's Uses of Voice / Alex Ullman -- Reception after #MeToo: The Cases of Susan Taubes and Erica Jong / Josh Lambert -- "Kike Art": Chris Kraus's Bad Jewishness and Artworld Hustles / Annie Atura Bushnell -- The Mother-Golem: Jewish, Queer, Feminist Writing about Disability / Jennifer Glaser -- Interconnected Losses: Grief Made Visible in Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? / Tahneer Oksman -- Mizrahi Jewish Women Writers in America: A Conversation / Karen E. H. Skinazi.

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Matrilineal dissent : women writers and Jewish American literary history

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:13:47.937398+00:00
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• Derived from: 23198859

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