The New Jewish American Literary Studies

Table of Contents

Introduction: toward a New Jewish American literary studies Victoria Aarons
Part I. Concepts:
1. 'Jewish American' or 'American Jewish': the hybrid in literary studies Berel Lang
2. A new diaspora: Jewish American writers from across the globe Victoria Aarons
3. Wrestling with politics: Jewish American writing from left to right (and back again) Michael Staub
4. Israel and America in Jewish American writing Eli Lederhendler
5. Jewish American writing and race Dean Franco
6. Gender and feminism in contemporary Jewish American writing Jessica Lang
Part II. Contexts:
7. Rethinking postwar Jewish American writers Timothy Parrish
8. The insistence of psychoanalysis in contemporary Jewish American fiction Willis Salomon
9. Reimagining the past, imagining the future: myth, history, and mystery in contemporary Jewish American fiction David Brauner
10. Women's voices: the assimilated subject and the persistence of marginalisation Catherine Morley
11. A guide for the heretic: charting the journey off the path of tradition Avinoam Patt
Part III. 'New' Forms and Histories:
12. Rethinking literary and ethical response to the Holocaust: reading 'with Hitler in New York' Gary Weissman
13. Jews in contemporary cinema and television Nathan Abrams
14. Story into memoir, memoir into story: Iranian-Jewish-American writing Judie Newman
15. Jewish-Latin American literature Darrell B. Lockhart
16. Jewish American literary studies abroad Gustavo Sánchez Canales.

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