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Article: Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention. (book reviews)
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Although critics have tended to characterize Ozick as a "marginal" writer--a writer whose work should be discussed in relation to ethnicity and gender--Kauvar protests that such simplification is reckless and useless. In her preface, Kauvar writes that she declines "an ethnic" designation for Cynthia Ozick because it smacks of marginality both for the Jew as writer and for the writer who is a Jew; and marginality is precisely the issue against which Ozick inveighs and the state over which her work triumphs. And Kauver comments later in the preface that she finds "a relentlessly feminist approach to Cynthia Ozick inappropriate and uninstructive." I believe that she is ...