04614nam 2200745Ia 450 991078272810332120230912134838.01-282-85474-797866128547430-7735-6684-810.1515/9780773566842(CKB)1000000000713625(SSID)ssj0000280372(PQKBManifestationID)11224756(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280372(PQKBWorkID)10269000(PQKB)10861271(CaPaEBR)400925(Au-PeEL)EBL3331104(CaPaEBR)ebr10141775(CaONFJC)MIL285474(OCoLC)929121388(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/wmr3mx(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400925(MiAaPQ)EBC3331104(DE-B1597)656437(DE-B1597)9780773566842(MiAaPQ)EBC3245461(EXLCZ)99100000000071362519970422d1997 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA house of words[electronic resource] Jewish writing, identity and memory /Norman RavvinMontreal ;Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Pressc1997x, 191 p. ill. ;24 cmMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series twoIncludes index.0-7735-1665-4 0-7735-1664-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: This World and Others -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- The Collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy -- Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexArguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.Series two.Jewish writing, identity and memoryAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismJews in literatureHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureNorth AmericaIntellectual lifeAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Jews in literature.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.813/.54098924Ravvin Norman1963-1540073MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782728103321A house of words3791445UNINA