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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism 1 Part I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion 1. Portnoy’s Complaint: It’s about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) 29 2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter 56 3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls 80 Part II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility 4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal’s Her First American 109 5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul 139 viii Contents 6. Globalization’s Complaint: Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture 170 Epilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights 193 Notes 209 Bibliography 223 Index 233 ...