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Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access originally published online on November 6, 2009
Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(2):144-152; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp021
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Jew-ish: Grace Paley's Prose of the City and Poetry of the Country

Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel sidra.dke@gmail.com

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Ask anybody who knows Grace Paley's writing, or who knew Grace, if she was a "Jewish" writer, and you’ll likely get the same stunned look you’d get if you inquired whether the sky was blue. Press on, and you’ll get an elaboration as slippery as an inventory of the firmament's "color." That Paley escapes, Houdini-like, from all the categories that would contain her – that the impact of her prose and her poetry is registered in our solar plexus – is the frustrating, and delicious, challenge to our determination to include her in our curricula and our bibliographies. But my own attempt to try to define Paley's elusive legacy as a "Jewish" writer is also motivated by the sense that she articulated a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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