{"product_id":"matrilineal-dissent-annie-atura-bushnell-9780814349854","title":"Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRedefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBridging 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. \u003ci\u003eMatrilineal Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy tracing a matrilineal literary history, this book dissents from readers and critics who continue to describe women's contributions as mere commentaries on and correctives to male-dominated canons. Simultaneously, this volume troubles the politics of inheritance, continuity, and lineage to underscore the ways that literary traditions--like Jewishness and gender--are mutually constitutive and continually in flux.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollectively, 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 asks: what happens to conventional understandings of Jewish American literature when we center women's writing and acknowledge women as dominant players in Jewish cultural production?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie Atura Bushnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814349854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814349854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Annie Atura Bushnell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45265464819967,"sku":"9780814349854","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30c7596a-f8e0-4cd4-bd73-cc26ba8548e6.jpg?v=1713420900","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/matrilineal-dissent-annie-atura-bushnell-9780814349854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}