| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) |
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Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on |
| Summary |
Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of "home" in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within "the little secrets" of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-248) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
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Judaism in literature.
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Jews in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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American literature -- Jewish authors
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Jews in literature
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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Judaism and literature
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Judaism in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0299212432 |
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9780299212438 |
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