Silences by Tillie Olsen

Silences by Tillie Olsen

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A study of the crucial relationship between circumstances - of sex, economic class, colour, the times and climate into which one is born - and creativity. The book draws on the lives, letters, diaries and testimonies of writers such as Melville, Hardy, Blake and Rimbaud.

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Silences by Tillie Olsen

A study of the crucial relationship between circumstances - of sex, economic class, colour, the times and climate into which one is born - and creativity. The book draws on the lives, letters, diaries and testimonies of writers such as Melville, Hardy, Blake and Rimbaud. Tillie Olsen focuses on the financial and cultural pressures which obstructed, or silenced, their work. She then turns to those who have lost most: women writers, their energies deflected into domesticity and motherhood; black American writers, only 11 of whom published more than two novels from 1850-1950.
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ISBN 13 9780860681588
ISBN 10 0860681580
Titre Silences
Auteur Tillie Olsen
Série Virago Modern Classics
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Little, Brown Book Group
Année de publication 1994-02-24
Nombre de pages 298
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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