The Impossible Jew : Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History /

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He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schreier, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Roth, Philip.
Foer, Jonathan Safran, > 1977-
Cahan, Abraham, > 1860-1951.
Cahan, Abraham, > 1860-1951 > Criticism and interpretation.
Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation.
Foer, Jonathan Safran, > 1977- > Criticism and interpretation.
Jews > Identity.
Jewish literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature juive > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Juifs > Identite.
Jewish literature > United States > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies; suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept critical literary studies as.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9781479888436

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