A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ravvin, Norman, 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1997]
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1937-1985.
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Canadian fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism > Periodicals.
Jews in literature.
Roman canadien-anglais > Auteurs juifs > Histoire et critique.
Roman canadien-anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > Auteurs juifs > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique > Périodiques.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Jews in literature
Canadian fiction
American fiction
American fiction > Jewish authors
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
Aufsatzsammlung
Roman
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Joden.
Holocaust.
Judeus.
Literatura norte americana (historia e critica)
Kanada
USA
Juden.
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Periodicals
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: this world and others
  • pt. 1. What sort of home is the past?
  • Forethought: building a house of words
  • Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies
  • Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers
  • Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman
  • pt. 2. Strange presences
  • Forethought: facing up to the past
  • Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy
  • Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank
  • Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life.
  • pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse
  • Forethought: on refusing to end
  • Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust
  • An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel
  • pt. 4. The collaborator
  • Forethought
  • Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy
  • Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition.

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