Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307)
Contents:
Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen Silences in literature / Tillie Olsen Personal statement / Tillie Olsen The circumstances of silence : literary representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha past / Linda Ray Pratt From the thirties : Tillie Olsen and the radical tradition / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt A feminist spiritual vision / Elaine Neil Orr Death labors / Joanne Trautmann Banks Motherhood as source and silencer of creativity / Mara Faulkner To "bear my mother's name" : Künstlerromane by women writers / Rachel Blau De Plessis --"No one's private ground" : a bakhtinian reading fo Tillie Olsen's Tell me a riddle / Constance Coiner
