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Title The writer uprooted : contemporary Jewish exile literature / edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 254 pages)
Series Jewish literature and culture
Jewish literature and culture.
Contents Nomadic language / Norman Manea -- On Norman Manea's The hooligan's return / Matei Calinescu -- Writing about uprootedness / Henryk Grynberg -- Exile as life after death in the writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea / Katarzyna Jerzak -- The writer as tour guide / Lara Vapnyar -- Questions of identity : the new world of the immigrant writer / Morris Dickstein -- A displaced scholar's tale : the Jewish factor / Geoffrey Hartman -- Exile : inside and out / Bronislava Volková -- From country to country : my search for home / Zsuzsanna Ozsváth -- Finding a virtual home for Yiddish poetry in Southern Indiana / Dov-Ber Kerler
Summary Profiles important new Jewish immigrant writers in America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Jewish authors -- Europe, Eastern
Exiles' writings -- History and criticism
Immigrants -- United States.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
American literature -- Jewish authors
Exiles' writings
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
Immigrants
Jewish authors
Jews -- Intellectual life
Literatur
Exilschriftsteller
Eastern Europe
United States
USA
Juden.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Rosenfeld, Alvin H. (Alvin Hirsch), 1938-
ISBN 9780253000361
025300036X
9780253351449
0253351448
9780253219817
0253219817