The Private Goes Public: Gender and Cultural Spaces in Abraham Cahan's Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto

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  • Nicole Soost

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https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.63

Abstract

This essay explores the relations between cultural spaces and gender in Abraham Cahan's text Yekl“. American culture at the turn into the twentieth century was becoming increasingly theatrical. In this process public and private spaces as well as conceptions of gender were transformed. By contrasting the two female characters Mamie and Gitl in Cahan's text these transformations become most evident.

 

Author Biography

Nicole Soost

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I studied American, English and German literature in Munich and Colchester, England. M.A. 1996 at the University of Munich. 1996-1998 public relations work for a book publisher. Since 1998 work at my PhD Project "Reading/Writing Spaces: Literary New York 1890-1998". 1998-2001 member of interdisciplinary Graduiertenkolleg "Geschlechterdifferenz und Literatur" at the University of Munich. 1999 research in New York City funded by the DAAD.

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Soost, Nicole. “The Private Goes Public: Gender and Cultural Spaces in Abraham Cahan’s Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 2, Mar. 2012, doi:10.5283/copas.63.

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Vol. 2 (2001)

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