Silences

By Tillie Olsen

Subjects: Women authors, Biography, Literature, Creative writing, Art d'écrire, Authorship, sex differences, Literature, women authors, Addresses, essays, lectures, Dictionaries, Sex differences, Écrivaines, Authorship, History and criticism, English literature, Women and literature, Authors, Literature, history and criticism, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Theory

Description: "In Silences, Tillie Olsen ... confronts ... the crucial relationship between circumstances--class, color, sex, the times and climate into which one is born--and the creation of written literature. These essays ... explore the problems of literary 'silences' in the careers of both the acknowledged great and those who ceased to write ... Tillie Olsen focuses on the silences that are most immediate to her own experience: how a negative literary climate, childbearing and rearing shape a woman's writing life"--Cover.