附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307).
Introduction / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- Chronology -- Tell me a riddle / Tillie Olsen -- Background to the story. Silences in literature ; Personal statement / Tillie Olsen -- Critical essays. The circumstances of silence : literary representation and Tillie Olsen's Omaha past / Linda Ray Pratt -- From the thirties : Tillie Olsen and the radical tradition / Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt -- A feminist spiritual vision / Elaine Neil Orr -- Death labors / Joanne Trautmann Banks -- Motherhood as source and silencer of creativity / Mara Faulkner -- To "bear my mother's name" : Künstlerromane by women writers / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- "No one's private ground" : a Bakhtinian reading of Tillie Olsen's Tell me a riddle / Constance Coiner.
