{"product_id":"9780814349854-matrilineal-dissent","title":"Matrilineal Dissent","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWomen Writers and Jewish American Literary History\u003cbr\u003eBridging 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRedefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging 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. \u003ci\u003eMatrilineal Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy 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--are mutually constitutive and continually in flux.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively, 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55216106373494,"sku":"9780814349854","price":29.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38152513_bb3c9d58-6003-40c8-8c61-dfab1053faf5.jpg?v=1763759409","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780814349854-matrilineal-dissent","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}