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Race, rights, and recognition : Jewish American literature since 1969
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- Creator
- Dean J. Franco
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xi, 239 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801464013, 080146448X, 132250511X, 9780801464485, 9780801450877, 080145087X, 9780801464010
- OCLC
- ocn979575652, ocn797834378, ocn762768868
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index.
- Introduction: the politics and ethics of Jewish American literature and criticism -- Portnoy's complaint: it's about race, not sex (even the sex is about race) -- Re-reading Cynthia Ozick: pluralism, postmodernism, and the multicultural encounter -- The new, new pluralism: religion, community, and secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Recognition and effacement in Lore Segal's Her first American -- Responsibility unveiled: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- Globalization's complaint: Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the culture of culture -- Epilogue: less Absurdistan, more Boyle Heights