http://apracticalpolicy.org/2008/01/10/tillie-olsen-2/ which I hope will not be liable to the least objection Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://apracticalpolicy.org/2008/01/10/tillie-olsen-2/#comment-14666 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:52:26 +0000 http://apragmaticpolicy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/tillie-olsen-2/#comment-14666 I use Olson’s “I Stand Here Ironing” when I teach intro to Lit. There is a recording of Olson reading the story in a kind of flat voice that’s still somehow expressive, perhaps because it is so clinical. Middle-class students often don’t connect easily with the story, but if I have students whose parents have worked three crappy jobs at a time to pay for university, those kids understand the story.

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