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- Accidents of Influence: Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
- Book
- 1992
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such major influences on our time as T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow. Accidents of Influence combines critical analysis with personal response and autobiographical moments. It includes quotidian encounters in friendship, sex, society, art, politics, response to violence, and religious observance, which struggle for moral ground in this post-Holocaust era.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- 1. A Holocaust Mentality
- Simone Weil-A Dissenting View
- pp. 19-28
- The Literature of Contempt
- pp. 41-46
- The Second Life of Holocaust Imagery
- pp. 47-54
- Hunting Metaphors and Nazis
- pp. 67-69
- The Fate of Anne Frank's Diary
- pp. 81-86
- Notes Toward a Holocaust Fiction
- pp. 105-123
- 2. Life Notes
- On Living in Two Cultures
- pp. 127-132
- Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
- pp. 133-138
- Friday Night Fever
- pp. 139-140
- A Women's Service
- pp. 141-144
- Women? Writers?
- pp. 145-156
- On the Dearth of Female Intellectuals
- pp. 157-159
- Her Price above Rubies
- pp. 161-164
- Low Thoughts Among the High-Minded
- pp. 165-168
- Sons and Mothers
- pp. 169-171
- Baby-Making
- pp. 173-176
- Child Abuse
- pp. 177-180
- The World's First Crop
- pp. 181-183
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Siblingless-Child
- pp. 185-188
- An Immoral Tale
- pp. 189-192
- William Faulkner and the Art of Ruthlessness
- pp. 193-196
- The Luck of the Trip
- pp. 197-200
- 3. Celebrations
- "Wadja Geffa Christmas, Li'l Boy?"
- pp. 203-205
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438417783
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
42855111
Pages
210
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No