Salome of the Tenements (Radical Novel Reconsidered)

Type

Book

Authors

Anzia Yezierska

ISBN 10

0252064356

ISBN 13

9780252064357

Tags

United States, Contemporary, Literary, Mythology & Folk Tales, Literature

Description

Salome of the Tenements shocked many critics and writers when first published in 1923, but its author was immediately hailed as a major new talent. A love story of a working-class Salome and her highborn John the Baptist, the novel is based on the real-life story of Jewish immigrant Rose Pastor's fairytale romance with the millionaire socialist Graham Stokes. It also reflects Yezierska's own aborted romance with the famous educator John Dewey. Yezierska's passionate but cynical novel poses oppositions such as cultural type/stereotype, passion/reason, and ethnic identity/assimilation, and it resonates powerfully to the contemporary reader. - from Amzon

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