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30. Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912) Literature of Resistance The Intersection of Feminism and the Political Left intillie olsen and Meridel LeSueur tillie olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Vision. http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/olsen.html

Tillie Lerner Olsen (b. 1912) Contributing Editor: Deborah S. Rosenfelt Classroom Issues and Strategies Olsen's work is relatively easy to teach since it addresses themes of concern to contemporary students and since its experiments with language remain within the bounds of realism. Tell Me a Riddle is among the most difficult of Olsen's works and some students have trouble for two reasons: They are unfamiliar with the social and political history em- bedded in the novella and they are confused by the allusive, stream-of-consciousness techniques Olsen employs for the revelation of that history's centrality in the consciousness of the protagonist. Since the knee-jerk negative reaction to "communists" is often a problem, I make sure I discuss thoroughly the historical soil out of which Tell Me a Riddle grows. Sometimes I show the film Seeing Reds . I always read students a useful passage from A Long View from the Left: Memoirs of an American Revolutionary (Delta, 1972, p. 8) by Al Richmond. Showing the film version of Tell Me a Riddle can be a good strategy for provoking discussion. The film itself is one of the rare representations of older people's lives and one of the few in which an older woman figures as the protagonist. Reading passages from Olsen's

31. Speaking Freely: An Evening With Remarkable Women -- Tillie Olsen To get to tillie olsen's East Bay home, you walk to her front doorbeneath a canopy of deep blue morning glories. It seems fitting http://www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/speakingfreely/local/tillie_olsen.html

select a topic local focus "Little children love learning to talk. They love language; they love rhymes. To express oneself, to communicate, is a human need and capacity. I was lucky enough to fall in love with what was in books, thanks to a public library. In my novel Yonnondio , I wrote a scene where a mother is trying to get her kids to the library. 'That's what books are - the inside of people's heads you'd never get to know - getting to places you'd never get to really see." To get to Tillie Olsen's East Bay home, you walk to her front door beneath a canopy of deep blue morning glories. It seems fitting that the Nebraska-born author should live surrounded by the quiet of a lush garden after nearly a century of fighting the good fight for such causes as women's right, civil rights and the rights of the working class. What makes her fiction compelling is the plain and powerful fact that it's charged with her politics without proselytizing or compromising her narrative art. For example, in the much anthologized story "I Stand Here Ironing," the reader listens in on the thoughts of a woman set in place at her routine ironing duty. How rare it must have been to read fiction in the early 1950s - when the story was written - about the true grit and tedium of this type of woman's work. It was, in fact, a revolutionary mode of writing. In the following passage from her book of non-fiction, Silences, Ms. Olsen complements her fictional work by scrutinizing what was then an entrenched imbalance of male to female writers, and not insignificantly, the smaller oeuvres that women have been able to produce.

32. Speaking Freely: An Evening With Remarkable Women -- Tillie Olsen tillie olsen Describe the women who have most influenced your life andthe formation of your character. My mother, who had six living http://www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/speakingfreely/local/tillie_olsen_interview.html

select a topic local focus Describe the women who have most influenced your life and the formation of your character. My mother, who had six living children, was certainly a profound influence on me. She herself had been illiterate until she was in her 20s. She grew up in that old Czarist Russia, and she learnt to read very rapidly, indeed, in a revolutionary circle. She came to this country and met my father. She had two children on the farm. I was the second child. I was born just before they left Omaha and moved to a farm in Nebraska. We were tenant farmers; we didn't own the land. It was an era before washing machines, although the washboard had been developed. There was no electricity, either. We used oil lamps. To get water, you had to go out in winter or summertime to where the pump was, quite a distance away My mother also went to night school for about a year-and-a-half and loved the chance to learn to read and write English, although her primary languages remained Russian and Yiddish. There were magazines and journals that came into the house, and books that she had. She did not have much time. Anyway, she worked very hard. She was somewhat active in a Socialist group, but did not have a lot of time. Without ever articulating it, I unconsciously contrasted my mother's life with the life of my teachers. I didn't know anything about their personal lives, but I felt that she could have been a wonderful teacher, a wonderful leader of some kind, but for the circumstances of her life.

33. Tillie Olsen In her generation, Cliff is rare and is already distinguished as a writer ofgreat substance and power.” tillie olsen. Websites On Michelle Cliff. http://www.stark.kent.edu/women/women's lit course/cliff entry.htm

Michelle Cliff (1946 - ) Prepared by Jessie Brodwick, Kelly Geffert, Tamara Long, Michelle Cliff, born on November 2, 1946, grew up in Jamaica and later moved to the United States. She grew up in Jamaica, part of the upper middle class of society. Her relatives were considered wealthy, although they possessed little. Growing up she read mostly English and American writers as well as French. Cliff began reading the works of Caribbean writers as an adult. She wanted to be a writer at a young age, but in her family it was considered “taboo” to be a writer. One of the more influential novels Cliff read as a child was The Diary of Anne Frank . Cliff began keeping a diary modeled after the novel. She was humiliated when her family found her diary and read it aloud all she had kept secret from them, and quit writing until she reached the age of thirty. She was educated in New York City and also at the Warburg Institute located at the University of London. There she attained a Ph.D. on the Italian Renaissance. She is accredited with such novels as Abeng No Telephone to Heaven Bodies of Water Free Enterprise History as Fiction, Fiction as History

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - Tillie Lerner Olsen (1912 - ) Tillie Olsen Papers Primary Works Selected Bibliography MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Nebraska Center for Writers: TO Primary Works Yonnondio: from the thirties. NY: Delacorte P, 1974. PS3565 L82 Y6 Tell me a riddle. NY: Dell Pub. Co., 1976, 1961. PS3565 .L82 T38 Silences . NY: Delacorte P, 1978. PN151 .O4 Top Selected Bibliography Chametzky, Jules. "Memory and Silences in the Work of Tillie Olsen and Henry Roth." Memory, Narrative, and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures. Eds. Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, and Robert E. Hogan. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1994. 114-27. Coiner, Constance. "Literature of Resistance: The Intersection of Feminism and the Communist Left in Meridel Le Sueur and Tillie Olsen." Left Politics and the Literary Profession. Eds. Lennard J. Davis and M. Bella Mirabella. NY: Columbia UP, 1990. 162-85. Craft, Brigette W. "Tillie Olsen: A Bibliography of Reviews and Criticism, 1934-1991."

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Testimonials: A Classroom Exercise Based On Tillie Olsen Interview Based on a Re-Creation Exercise Inspired by Gabriele Rico Workshops Dr. Joanne E. Gates English 420 / 420G Women's Literature Fall 1999 Semester Overview of Exercise Students enrolled in the upper level / graduate sections of Women's Literature are exposed to the gender issue in women's lives and women as writers in a number of ways. There are numerous autobiographical and poetic statements in the course anthology, Gilbert and Gubar's The Norton Anthology of Literature By Women , 2nd edition. In addition, I offer an introduction to on-line resources and announce the required reading from on-line sources we use to supplement the anthology. In the Fall 1999 Semester, the reading included one essay by Elizabeth Robins that I consider a prototype for Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Adrienne Rich's "When We Dead Awaken," and other manifestos which expose the cultural biases that marginalize women who write from a woman's point of view. I am project director of The Elizabeth Robins Web , a site which, with modest startup funding from a JSU Faculty Research Grant, makes available hyptertext versions of Robins's previously published works. Over the summer of 1999, I added Robins's collection of suffrage speeches and essays collected as

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Tillie Olsen "I Stand Here Ironing" Resources Dorothy Minor Tulsa Community College The following resources will aid the development of the Unit of Practice on "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen. Sites on Tillie Olsen: The Nebraska Center for Writers offers the following web site on Tillie Olsen, a Nebraska native. It provides a number of links to such items as a selection from Olsen's work, an interview with Olsen, and quotations from Olsen's work. http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm On the next site, readers can post comments on Olsen's work and read what others think about the literature. http://jollyroger.nbci.com/zz/yauthord/Olsen,Tilliehall/shakespeare1.html This college newspaper site provides an interview with Tillie Olsen. http://sundial.csun.edu/sun/97s/042897ne1.htm The University of California at Santa Cruz provides an article in the University newspaper about Tillie Olsen Day. http://slugwire.ucsc.edu/weekly/archives/98Mar3/tillie.html Olsen, Tillie (1913) gives a bibliography on biographical information as well as critical information on Tillie Olsen. http://valencia.cc.fl.us/lrcwest/olsen.html

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Tillie Olsen "I Stand Here Ironing" Assessment Dorothy Minor Tulsa Community College Assessment Activities Rubric for PowerPoint Presentation Rubric for Essay Rubric for PowerPoint Presentation (Must be printed) Beginning Developing Accomplished Exemplary Research Skills Used one resource; no citations; possible plagiarism Did not vary resources; cites sources correctly; attempts to avoid plagiarism Used Internet and one other source; cited sources correctly; avoids plagiarism Used variety of resources; sources cited correctly; avoids plagiarism Content Vague information, not pertinent; no thesis; lack of depth Includes some pertinent info; attempt at thesis; lack of depth Important info covered; clear thesis; need more depth of knowledge Important info covered; clear thesis; depth of knowledge Presentation Skills Unclear in communicating to the listeners; incomplete or incorrect information Vague communication; does little to raise listeners’ understanding and knowledge Mostly communicates clearly; raises listeners’ knowledge on most of the points Communicates clearly; adds to listeners’ knowledge and understanding greatly

40. Tillie Olsen By Anne-Marie Cusac tillie olsen. BY ANNEMARIE CUSAC. tillie olsen, THE BELOVED FICTION WRITER, IS SELF-EFFACINGIN PERSON. I haven't published a lot of anything, she says. http://www.progressive.org/amc1199.htm

Tillie Olsen BY ANNE-MARIE CUSAC TILLIE OLSEN, THE BELOVED FICTION WRITER, IS SELF-EFFACING IN PERSON. "I haven't published a lot of anything," she says. And she's partly right. Her output has been relatively small. But she makes up for that in quality. Most famous for the short-story collection Tell Me a Riddle (Dell, 1961), Olsen has the ability to imply whole lives in a few sentences. Here the speaker of "I Stand Here Ironing" looks back on the difficulties of young, single motherhood: "She was a miracle to me, but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily's father, who "could no longer endure" (he wrote in his good-bye note) "sharing want with us." "I was nineteen. It was the pre-relief, pre-WPA world of the depression. I would start running as soon as I got off the streetcar, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour, and awake or asleep to startle awake, when she saw me she would break into a clogged weeping that could not be comforted, a weeping I can hear yet." Olsen says she was born in 1912 or 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska. Her parents were working class Russian Jewish immigrants and were deeply involved in the Socialist Party, which her father served as state secretary. Once, Eugene Victor Debs, head of the Socialist Party, came to Omaha in celebration of his release from prison (he was incarcerated for protesting World War I). Olsen and her sister presented him with red rosesan event she recalls fondly.

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