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Salome of the Tenements (Radical Novel Reconsidered)
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Salome of the Tenements (Radical Novel Reconsidered) Paperback - 1996

by Yezierska, Anzia

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University of Illinois Press, 1996-01-01. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.
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  • Title Salome of the Tenements (Radical Novel Reconsidered)
  • Author Yezierska, Anzia
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used:Good
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-01-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0252064356
  • ISBN 9780252064357 / 0252064356
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.34 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.56 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Jewish fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95006020
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the rear cover

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.

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About the author

Anzia Yezierska was a sweatshop worker and laundress before becoming a successful novelist. Two of her seven works of fiction, including Salome of the Tenements, were made into motion pictures. Gay Wilentz, an associate professor of English at East Carolina University, is the author of Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora.