Elana Dykewomon (1949–2022)
Auteur de Beyond the Pale
A propos de l'auteur
Elana Dykewomon was an editor of Sinister Wisdom from 1987 to 1995.
Œuvres de Elana Dykewomon
They Will Know Me By My Teeth: Stories and Poems of Lesbian Struggle, Celebration, And Survival (1976) 38 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 43/44: The 15th Anniversary Retrospective (1991) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 20 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 54: Lesbians and Religion (1994) — Directeur de publication; Directeur de publication — 17 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 49: The Lesbian Body (1993) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 36: Surviving Psychiatric Assault & Creating Emotional Well-Being in Our Communities (1988) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 51: New Lesbian Writing (1993) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 48: Lesbian Resistance (1992) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 34: Special Issue on Lesbian Visions, Fantasy, Sci-Fi (1988) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 37: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Theory (1989) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Sinister Wisdom 38: With an Emphasis on Lesbian Relationships (1989) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Women on Women 3: A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (1996) — Contributeur — 108 exemplaires
The Woman Who Lost Her Names: Selected Writings of American Jewish Women (1980) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
The Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness (2003) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Wonder, S.P.
Nachman, Elana (birth) - Date de naissance
- 1949-10-11
- Date de décès
- 2022-08-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Oakland, California, USA
- Cause du décès
- cancer [esophogeal]
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Puerto Rico
Oakland, California, USA - Études
- Reed College (BFA ∙ Creative Writing)
- Professions
- writer
editor
teacher
activist - Relations
- Levinkind, Susan (partner)
- Prix et distinctions
- Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize (2009)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 31
- Aussi par
- 12
- Membres
- 748
- Popularité
- #33,983
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 21
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1
BEYOND THE PALE begins in Poland/Russia in the late 1880s. Gutke Gurvich was the daughter of a rape victim. Her mother left her home because of how she and her baby would be treated by their neighbors. She became a midwife because there would always be work. Using her knowledge of herbs, she also helped treat medical problems, including those to help women in labor.
One of her patients is the mother of Chava Meyer. After Chava’s parents were murdered in a progrom. Chava moved to New York City to escape the dangers of being Jewish in Russia.
BEYOND THE PALE is a wonderfully told story of the lives of these women, both personally and as members of the societies in which they lived: the poverty, work environments, and society. It speaks of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and of the growing labor movement. It also examines coming to terms with lesbianism.
Tidbits:
“My mother accepted bad and good luck on faith; it was all part of what God had laid out, the road she was meant to walk. Pesah’s understanding was more complicated. By her, you needed more than faith, you needed to admire yourself just as you came, God was in you...but your own self was also something you moved on your on. You decided to act, not just God–or, God forbid, the Tsar–decided for you.”
“Men must have a factory where they make disagreements. Ordinary ones sold for a couple of kopeks, big ones for a ruble. My family kept this factory in business. Women worked so men could argue.”
“Was it just an accident that Mama and Papa were in the wrong place at the wrong time? What about the real sins, the sins of the people who killed them?...God took to long to punish murderers. It was no wonder human beings invented vengeance.”
“It was always men who were remembered for what they wrote. Maybe in the new world things would be different, and women would be remembered too. No one remembered working girls–was that why women had children, so someone would remember us?”
Elana Dykewomon’s writing draws us into the lives of the women and keeps us there after the story is told.… (plus d'informations)