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�Tell Me a Riddle� renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present.

Table of Contents
Introduction - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
Chronology

Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
Background to the Story:
Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen
Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen

Critical Essays:
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 a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner
To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis
"No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner

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      Publisher MW - Rutgers University Press
      Published 5 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780813521374
      978-0813521374
      ISBN-10 0813521378

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      �Tell Me a Riddle� renders an unforgettable portrait of a working class couple when the gender determined differences in their experiences of poverty and familial life give rise to bitter conflict after almost four decades of marriage. As she dies from cancer, Eva, the protagonist, recollects a revolutionary past that both critiques and offers hope for the present.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction - Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt
      Chronology

      Tell Me a Riddle - Tillie Olsen
      Background to the Story:
      Silences in Literature - Tillie Olsen
      Personal Statement - Tillie Olsen

      Critical Essays:
      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 a Source and Silencer of Creativity - Mara Faulkner
      To "Bear My Mother's Name": Kunstlerromane by Women Writers - Rachel Blau Duplessis
      "No One's Private Ground": A Bakhtinian Reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle - Constance Coiner

      Selected Bibliography
      Permissions

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