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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature
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- Summary
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This collection discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, & ethics, & places it in the contexts of both Jewish & American w...
This collection discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, & ethics, & places it in the contexts of both Jewish & American writing. It covers writers from the 1700s to contemporaries such as Saul Bellow & Philip Roth.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780511998751, 0511998759, 9780521792936
- OCLC
- ocn723454547
- "Cambridge collections online."
- Title from home page (viewed Feb. 3, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making / Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history / Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America / Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants / Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination / David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America / Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture / Donald Weber -- Jewish American poetry / Maeera Y. Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the Left / Alan Wald -- Jewish American renaissance / Ruth R. Wisse -- The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination / Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question / Susan Gubar -- On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics / Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing / Tresa Grauer