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Material Bodies and Performative Identities: Mona, Neil, and the Promised Land
- Philip Roth Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2006
- pp. 102-120
- 10.1353/prs.2006.a386380
- Article
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This article contrasts the articulation of Jewishness and ethnicity/race found in Goodbye, Columbus with that of Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land. The ambivalence of locating the self and others within a spectrum of racialized possibilities of Jewish identity is central to this article.