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Date of this Version
Fall 2011
Document Type
Article
Citation
Great Plains Quarterly 31:4 (Fall 2011).
Abstract
The large book by Panthea Reid (449 pages, 16 chapters, a prologue, epilogue, and three appendices) tracks Tillie Olsen's long life (1912-2007) step by step, beginning from the Jewish-Russian origins of both her maternal and paternal families, up to her death on January 1, 2007.
The book could have been a useful addition to Olsen scholarship, if not for the biographer's insistent efforts to destroy the image of a writer and a woman who was committed so extensively to unhinging the political, social, and cultural stereotypes built up to contain the action of women in America and elsewhere.
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Copyright © 2011 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.