Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative /
Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collecti...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative; Part 1: Dialogues with Orthodoxy and History; 1. "Hardly There Even When She Wasn't Lost": Orthodox Daughters and the "Mind-Body Problem" in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction; 2. Southern Discomfort: Revisiting the Jewish Question in Tova Mirvis's The Ladies Auxiliary; 3. The Ethics of After: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Holocaust Fiction, and the Reemergence of an Ethical Sense in the Post-Holocaust World.
- 4. The Second-Generation Holocaust Nonsurvivor: Third-Degree Metalepsis and Creative Block in Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novel Maus5. "Unfinished Business": Journeys to Eastern Europe in Thane Rosenbaum's Second Hand Smoke and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated; Part 2: Folklore, Fantasy, and the Metanarrative; 6. The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction; 7. A Tale Told about Idiots: The Chelm Story and Holocaust Representation; 8. Laughter and Trembling: The Short Fiction of Steve Stern and Nathan Englander.
- 9. Metafictional Witnessing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is IlluminatedPart 3: (Re)inscribing Jewish Text and Identity; 10. Putting the "Jewish" Back in "Jewish American Fiction": A Look at Jewish American Fiction since 1977 and an Allegorical Reading of Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue"; 11. "Were it Not for the Yetzer Hara": Eating, Knowledge, and the Physical in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple; 12. The Sweetheart Is Outside Herself: Writing the Contemporary Jewish American Writer in S.L. Wisenberg's Ceci Rubin Stories.
- 13. Jewish American Fiction on the Border: Culture Confrontations, Double Consciousness, and Hybridity in the Work of Pearl AbrahamPart 4: Authors in Their Own Words; 14. Margins within the Margins: An Interview with Ruth Knafo Setton and Farideh Dayanim Goldin; 15. Picturing American Stories: An Interview with Ben Katchor; Questions for Discussion; Contemporary Jewish American Fiction: A Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index.