“My One Story is Hunger”: il languore metafisico delle protagoniste di Anzia Yezierska

This essay focuses on “hunger”, the Leitmotif of Anzia Yezierska's literary production, a powerful mixture of feelings experienced by her protagonists, Jewish women born and raised in the poverty and oppression of the shtetlach under the Czarist domination, who fled to America in the 1880s to l...

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Main Author: Simona Porro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2015-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/4827