The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature
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- Editors:
- Hana Wirth-Nesher, Tel-Aviv University
- Michael P. Kramer, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Date Published: December 2004
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For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511056789
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer
1. Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer
2. Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel
3. The East European immigrants Priscilla Wald
4. Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies
5. Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz
6. Multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher
7. Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber
8. Jewish American poetry Maeera Shreiber
9. Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald
10. Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse
11. The Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick
12. Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar
13. Contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky
14. Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer.
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