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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The school of criticism I wouldn't be caught dead in: a polemic on theorizing the field
  • 1. Toward a critical semitism: on not answering the Jewish question in literary studies
  • 2. Against the dialectic of nation: Abraham Cahan and desire's spectral Jew
  • 3. The negative desire of Jewish representation; or, why were the New York intellectuals Jewish?
  • 4. Why Jews aren't normal: the unrepresentable future of Philip Roth's the counterlife
  • 5. 9/11's stealthy Jews: Jonathan Safran Foer and the irrepresentation of identity.

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