"In the open" : Jewish women writers and British culture / edited by Claire M. Tylee.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

Introduction : the visibility and distinctiveness of Jewish women's writing in Britain / Claire M. Tylee -- "Ticketing oneself a Yid" : generic fiction, antisemitism and the response to Nazi atrocities in Naomi Jacob's Barren metal / Claire M. Tylee -- "A Jewish womanhood attached to the soil, a new type of Jewish womanhood" : constructions of Israel in the fiction of Lynne Reid Banks / Deborah Philips -- Ellen Galford's "ghost writing" : dykes, dybbuks, and doppelgangers / Paulina Palmer -- Divided loyalties : Betty Miller's narratives of ambivalence / Sarah Sceats -- Bellow at your elbow, Roth breathing down your neck : gender and ethnicity in novels by Bernice Rubens and Linda Grant / David Brauner -- Motifs of exile, hopelessness, and loss : disentangling the matrix of Anita Brookner's novels / Aránzazu Usandizaga -- "Gay Israels" and the "nomadic embrace" : Mina Loy writing race / Alex Goody -- "The link of common aspirations" : Wales in the work of Lily Tobias / Jasmine Donahaye -- Denise Levertov and the poetry of multiculturalism / David Fulton -- Writing the self : memoirs by German exiles, British-Jewish women / Sue Vice -- Stages of memory : imagining identities in the Holocaust drama of Deborah Levy, Julia Pascal, and Diane Samuels / Susanne Greenhalgh -- "The pressure of what has been felt" : the poetry of Elaine Feinstein / Rose Atfield.