Race, Rights, and Recognition : Jewish American Literature since 1969 /
In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-base...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the politics and ethics of Jewish American literature and criticism
- Portnoy's complaint : it's about race, not sex (even the sex is about race)
- Re-reading Cynthia Ozick : pluralism, postmodernism, and the multicultural encounter
- The new, new pluralism : religion, community, and secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls
- Recognition and effacement in Lore Segal's Her first American
- Responsibility unveiled : Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
- Globalization's complaint : Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the culture of culture
- Epilogue : less Absurdistan, more Boyle Heights.