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Matrilineal Dissent

Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

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 drawing attention to the politics of these authors and their readers, texts emerge as tools and living practices rather than as ends in themselves.
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 invites questions about conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production.

About the Authors

Annie Atura Bushnell is the associate director of academic programs at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Her recent research explores Jewish women's integration into and determination of white norms of femininity through feminist practice and theory. Lori Harrison-Kahan is professor of the practice of English at Boston College. She is editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson, co-editor of Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (both Wayne State University Press) and author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary. Ashley Walters is assistant professor of Jewish studies and director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston. She teaches courses on modern Jewish history, Jews and the American South, and women's and gender studies. List of Contributors: Jennifer Glaser, Jessica Kirzane, Josh Lambert, Tahneer Oksman, Rachel Rubinstein, Karen Skinazi, Alex Ullman

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