LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ivy schweitzer

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ivy schweitzer

  • Dividing Rivers
    Ivy Schweitzer
    Dividing Rivers is a memoir in poetry about the author’s struggles as a nerdy Jewish girl growing up in Brooklyn, NY, with her parents’ and community’s assumptions about Jews and Whiteness, being a Jewish woman, and relationships with Black people. Excluded from Yiddish, the language of her immigrant grandparents, she searches within their socialist ideals for a language and me...
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    25,68 €

  • Perfecting Friendship
    Ivy Schweitzer
    Contemporary notions of friendship regularly place it in the private sphere, associated with feminized forms of sympathy and affection. As Ivy Schweitzer explains, however, this perception leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, Schweitzer uncovers friendships built on a classical model that is both public and...
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    44,53 €

  • The Work of Self-Representation
    Ivy Schweitzer
    In The Work of Self-Representation Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of 'woman' and 'feminine' function in Puritan religious and literary discourse to represent both the 'otherness' of spiritual experience and the ways in wh...
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    54,27 €