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- Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah. Challenging the notion that Jewish American and Holocaust literature have exhausted their limits, this volume reexamines these closely linked traditions in light of recent postmodern theory. Composed against the tumultuous background of great cultural transition and unprecedented state-sponsored systematic murder, Jewish American and Holocaust literature both address the concerns of postmodern human existence in extremis. In addition to exploring how various mythic and literary themes are deconstructed in the lurid light of Auschwitz, this book provides critical reassessments of Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as contemporary Jewish American writers who are extending this vibrant tradition into the new millennium. These essays deepen and enrich our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgement
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1: Holocaust Literature
- 9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World
- pp. 125-136
- 2: Jewish American Literature
- 13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred "Neshamas
- pp. 179-184
- 17. Restarting Jewish Mothers
- pp. 235-242
- Contributors
- pp. 243-248
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791484449
MARC Record
OCLC
62395530
Pages
266
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No