Race, rights, and recognition [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish American literature since 1969 / / Dean J. Franco

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451826303321
• Autore: Franco Dean J. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2012
• ISBN: 0-8014-6448-X; 0-8014-6401-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/8924
• Soggetti: American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism; Jews in literature; Jews - United States - Intellectual life; Judaism and literature - United States - History - 20th century; Judaism and literature - United States - History - 21st century; Judaism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism -- Part I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion -- 1. Portnoy's Complaint: It's about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) -- 2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter -- 3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Part II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility -- 4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal's Her First American -- 5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- 6. Globalization's Complaint: Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture -- Epilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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-based rights and recognition that preoccupy Latino, African American, and Native American writers, they are generally suspicious of group identities and are more likely to adopt postmodern distancing techniques than to presume to speak for "their people." Ranging from Philip Roth's scandalous 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint to Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan in 2006, the literature Franco examines in this book is at once critical of and deeply invested in the problems of race and the rise of multicultural philosophies and policies in America.Franco argues that from the formative years of multiculturalism (1965-1975), Jewish writers probed the ethics and not just the politics of civil rights and cultural recognition; this perspective arose from a stance of keen awareness of the limits and possibilities of consensus-based civil and human rights. Contemporary Jewish writers are now responding to global problems of cultural conflict and pluralism and thinking through the challenges and responsibilities of cosmopolitanism. Indeed, if the United States is now correctly-if cautiously-identifying itself as a post-ethnic nation, it may be said that Jewish writing has been well ahead of the curve in imagining what a post-ethnic future might look like and in critiquing the social conventions of race and ethnicity.

Letters from the East : crusaders, pilgrims and settlers in the 12th-13th centuries / / Malcolm Barber, A. K. Bate

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463314603321
• Autore: Barber Malcolm
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Routledge, , 2016; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-317-10555-9; 1-317-10554-0; 1-315-59226-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Crusade Texts in Translation ; ; Volume 18
• Disciplina: 956.014
• Soggetti: Crusades; Electronic books.; Latin Orient History Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Canada and the United States [[electronic resource] ] : ambivalent allies / / John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785044403321
• Autore: Thompson John Herd <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2008
• ISBN: 1-282-64286-3; 9786612642869; 0-8203-3725-0
• Edizione: [4th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Collana: The United States and the Americas
• Altri autori (Persone): RandallStephen J. <1944->
• Disciplina: 327.73071; 303.48/271073 22
• Soggetti: United States Foreign relations Canada; Canada Foreign relations United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-428) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that roared, 1961-1968 -- The ambivalent ally, 1968-1984 -- Republicans and Tories, 1984-1993 -- A North American trajectory? 1994-2000 -- Playing by new American rules, 2001-2007 -- Epilogue : "plus ça change ...".