Post-war Jewish fiction : ambivalence, self-explanation and transatlantic connections /

Post-war Jewish fiction : ambivalence, self-explanation and transatlantic connections / David Brauner.

"In this study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by post-war British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through...

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Main Author: Brauner, David, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Subjects:
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jews > English-speaking countries > Intellectual life.
Judaism and literature > English-speaking countries.
Jewish fiction > History and criticism.
Ambivalence in literature.
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Explaining themselves: ambivalent representations of Jewishness in post-war British- and American-Jewish fiction
  • The gentile who mistook himself for a Jew
  • Nature anxiety, homosocial desire and (sub)urban paranoia: the Jewish anti-pastoral
  • Breaking the silence: Jewish women writing the war and the war after
  • Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: portraits of the artist as Jew(ish other).

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