Data di Pubblicazione:
2008
Citazione:
Arrivederci e tanti auguri : scrittura e dintorni nella vita di Grace Paley / C. Scarpino. - In: ÁCOMA. - ISSN 1122-6218. - 15:35(2008), pp. 20-36.
Abstract:
This paper attempts to map out the almost complete merging of Grace Paley’s biography and work; that is the overlapping of the public persona she has become over the decades – mostly from the Sixties to the Eighties – and the critically acclaimed short-story writer of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes At the Last Minute and Later the Same Day. Her short-stories are thus read in the light of three fields of study which are both biographical and fictional: her being born into a family of Jewish-Russian immigrants living in the Bronx; her being a working-class mother of two in the West Village in the Fifties and Sixties and her coming to write within an urban community of women; her symbiotic relationship with New York City and her ongoing commitment to keep its places “public
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Grace Paley; Story-telling; Jewish-American Women Writers; New York; Feminism;
Elenco autori:
C. Scarpino
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