Tillie Olsen

"In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the acknowledged great and those who ceased to write ... Tillie Olsen focuses on the silences that are most immediate to her own experience: how a negative literary climate,...

Dime una adivinanza está considerado, con justicia, un verdadero clásico de la literatura norteamericana. Un libro que explora algunos de los temas fundamentales de la experiencia humana, incluyendo la perdurabilidad de los lazos familiares, la experiencia de la inmigración, el compromiso político o la importancia de los cuidados. Olsen demostró en esta obra un excepcional afán de totalidad, sin renunciar por ello a las posibilidades expresivas...

The story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope.

Recovered for a new generation of feminist readers, this revolutionary depiction of the American working poor was one of the first literary critiques of industrial capitalism by a nineteenth-century proletarian. Originally published in 1861 in the Atlantic Monthly, "Life in the Iron Mills" remains a classic of proletarian literature that paints a bleak and incisive portrait of nineteenth-century industrial America. Rebecca Harding Davis was one...

Contains a collection of interviews with fourteen Black women authors.

After 47 years of marriage David and Eva have become enemies. When David learns Eva has cancer he takes her on a final, bittersweet trip to visit their daughter. As their romance rekindles, each rediscovers the person with whom they had fallen in love so many years before.