Silences

Introduction xi Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Lessons silences Has Taught Us by Shelley Fisher Fishkin PART ONE-SILENCES Silences in Literature 1962 5(116) One Out of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women in Our Century-1971 22(25) Rebecca Harding Davis-1971, 1972 47(74) PART TWO-Acerbs, Asides, Amulets, Exhumations, Sources, Deepenings, Roundings, Expansions Silences in Literature-II 121(56) Silences of the Great in Achievement 122(20) Silences-Its Varieties 142(10) The Work of Creation and the Circumstances It Demands for Full Functioning 152(7) Subterranean Forces And the Work of Creation in Circumstances Enabling Full Function 159(4) When the Claims of Creation Cannot Be Primary 163(4) The Literary Situation (1976) 167(10) The Writer-Woman: One Out of Twelve-II 177(84) Blight Its Earliest Expression 178(1) A Sense of Wrong Voiced 179(5) Literacy 184(2) One Out of Twelve-The Figures 186(8) The Baby; the Girl-Child; the Girl; the Young Writer-Woman 194(5) The Damnation of Women 199(14) The Angel in the House 213 One Out of Twelve-The Figures 186(8) The Baby; the Girl-Child; the Girl; the Young Writer-Woman 194(5) The Damnation of Women 199(14) The Angel in the House 213(4) Freeing the Essential Angel 217(1) Wives, Mothers, Enablers 218(6) Blight. The Hidden silencer-Breakdown 224(4) Hidden Blight-Professional Circumstances 228(20) Hidden Blight-Some Effects of Having to Counter and Encounter Harmful Treatment and Circumstances 248(8) Other Obstacles, Balks, Encumbrances in Coming to One's Own Voice, Vision, Circumference 256 PART THREE Creativity; Potentiality. First Generation 261(4) Excerpts from Life in the Iron Mills 265(19) Miscellany 284(3) Excerpts from My Heart Laid Bare 287(4) Tillie Olsen's Reading Lists 291(16) Permissions Acknowledgments 303 Index 307