Contents Introduction SusanLanser sTheory AuthorialVoice PersonalVoice CommunalVoice FictionofAuthorityestablish maintainauthorityinanumberofways aquesttobeheard respected andbelieved ahopeofinfluence Lanser 1992 p 7 Introduction TillieOlsen TillieOlsen 1912 2007 AmericanJewishWriter Yonnondiio FromtheThirtiesIStandHereIroningHeySailor WhatShip O YesTellmeaRiddleSilences Initially 1960s 1970s Present formandtechnique feministthoughts threedivisions feministthoughtssocialstrugglerootsadoptionintoaJewish Americanliterarycanon Unnamedmother BlackmotherAlva RussiaJewishWomanEva IStandHereIroning O Yes TellMeARiddle Outline ResearchingFindings AuthorialVoice PersonalVoice CommunalVoice ResistingMasculineNarrativeAuthority FasteningAuthorityofMaternalNarration EstablishingNarrativeAuthorityofMarginalizedGroup AuthorialVoice Theauthorialvoicemayhavetheriskofbeingdisqualifiedifithasrepresenteditselfasfemale Itispossiblethatwomen swritinghascarriedfullerpublicauthoritywhenitsvoicehasnotbeenmarkedasfemale Lanser 1992 p 18 narrativesituationsthatareheterodiegetic public andpotentiallyself referential Lanser 1992 p 9 Fryeconcludesthatitisthroughtheuseofthefirstpersonthatwomenwritersachievethedualoutcomesoffemininityandauthorshipandcreateprotagonistswhoarebothfemaleandautonomous Frye 1986 p 47 narratorswhoareself consciouslytellingtheirownstories Lanser 1992 p 18 PersonalVoice apracticeinwhichnarrativeauthorityisinvestedinadefinablecommunityandtextuallyinscribedeitherthroughmultiple mutuallyauthorizingvoicesorthroughthevoiceofasingleindividualwhoismanifestlyauthorizedbyacommunity Lanser 1992 p 21 CommunalVoice singularform CommunalVoice asimultaneousform onenarratorspeaksforacollective aplural we narrates asequentialform individualmembersofagroupnarrateinturn Conclusion Interruptions Obstacles AbsenceofFemaleVoiceandPresenceofFemale sOppression MotherhoodExperiences ThreeVoices FemaleRealities AuthorialVoice PersonalVoice CommunalVoice InternalStruggles SuppressedDesires FurtherStudy Besidesmultiplevoices therearemanyothernarrativestrategiesemployedinherworkstorevealherabidingthemewhichcanbestudiedindepth Theremustbemoreworkswrittenbyotherfeministwritersthatcanbeanalyzedfromtheperspectiveoffeministnarratology References ThankYou