Silences

Type

Book

Authors

Tillie Olsen

ISBN 10

0440577985

ISBN 13

9780440577980

Tags

Essays, Writing Skills, Women Writers, Cultural

Description

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. - from Amzon

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