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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829397003321

Autore

Burstein Janet

Titolo

Telling the little secrets : American Jewish writing since the 1980s / / Janet Burstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-26992-5

9786612269929

0-299-21243-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p. )

Disciplina

810.9/8924/0904

Soggetti

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Judaism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Jews - United States - Intellectual life

Judaism in literature

Jews in literature

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. 209-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.