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"WINNER of the Association of Jewish Libraries' Judaica Reference Award. Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brauner, David, 1968- (Editor ), Stähler, Axel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Colección:Edinburgh companions to literature
Temas:
1900-2099
English fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Jewish fiction > History and criticism.
Roman anglais > Auteurs juifs > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > Auteurs juifs > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman juif > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Reference.
American fiction > Jewish authors
English fiction
Jewish fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. I. American Jewish fiction
  • 1. Pioneering women writers and the de-ghettoisation of early American Jewish fiction / Lori Harrison-Kahan
  • 2. Sensibilities of estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow / Catherine Morley
  • 3. The making of American Jewish identities in postwar American fiction / Victoria Aarons
  • 4. "Are you kidding me?' Black humour in the work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield and Bruce Jay Friedman / David Gooblar
  • 5. American Jewish life writing, illness and the ethics of innovation / Aimee Pozorski
  • 6. From feminist to housewife and back again: orthodoxy and modernity in American Jewish women's writing / Rachel S. Harris
  • 7. Soviet Jews, re-imagined: anglophone émigré Jewish writers from the USSR / Sasha Senderovich
  • 8. History on a personal note: postwar American Jewish short stories / David Brauner
  • 9. Disappointed believers? The Jewish question mark in Eisner's "A contract with God" / Sarah Lightman
  • 10. The Holocaust in American Jewish fiction / Jennifer Lemberg
  • 11. Representing the Holocaust in third-generation American Jewish writers / Monica Osborne
  • 12. Marginal writers; or, Jews who aren't / Debra Shostak.
  • Pt. II. British Jewish fiction
  • 13. The postwar 'New wave' of British Jewish writing / Efraim Sicher
  • 14. Jewish émigré and refugee writers in Britain / David Herman
  • 15. Jewish exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons / Phyllis Lassner
  • 16. Jewish, half-Jewish, Jew-ish: negotiating identities in contemporary British Jewish literature / Ruth Gilbert
  • 17. Life writing and the East End / Devorah Baum
  • 18. 'Almost too good to be true': Israel in British Jewish fiction, pre-Lebanon / Axel Stähler
  • 19. The writing on the wall: Israel in British Jewish fiction, post-Lebanon / Axel Stähler
  • 20. British Jewish Holocast fiction / Sue Vice
  • 21. Reading matters / Beate Neumeier.
  • pt. III. International and transnational anglophone Jewish fiction
  • 22. Jewish writing in Canada / Ira Nadel
  • 23. South African Jewish writers / Linda Weinhouse
  • 24. Repairing cracked heirlooms: South African Jewish literary memoriy of Lithania and Latvia / Claudia B. Braude
  • 25. Australian Jewish fiction: a bibliographical survey / Serge Liberman
  • 26. 'Migrant' Jewish writers in the anglophone diaspora / Sandra Singer
  • 27. Jewish novels of the Spanish Civil War / Emily Robins Sharpe
  • 28. Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie / Shaul Bassi.

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