04099nam 2200589Ia 450 991081893610332120200520144314.01-280-12853-497866135324111-61249-162-6(CKB)2670000000184604(OCoLC)785870854(CaPaEBR)ebrary10547139(SSID)ssj0000649949(PQKBManifestationID)11383244(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649949(PQKBWorkID)10610650(PQKB)11517126(MiAaPQ)EBC3119196(EXLCZ)99267000000018460420110926d2011 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrUnfinalized moments essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative /edited by Derek Parker Royal1st ed.West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue University Pressc20111 online resource (278 p.)Shofar supplements in Jewish studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-55753-584-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative -- Part 1: Dialogues with Orthodoxy and History -- 1. "Hardly There Even When She Wasn't Lost": Orthodox Daughters and the "Mind-Body Problem" in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction -- 2. Southern Discomfort: Revisiting the Jewish Question in Tova Mirvis's The Ladies Auxiliary -- 3. The Ethics of After: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Holocaust Fiction, and the Reemergence of an Ethical Sense in the Post-Holocaust World -- 4. The Second-Generation Holocaust Nonsurvivor: Third-Degree Metalepsis and Creative Block in Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novel Maus -- 5. "Unfinished Business": Journeys to Eastern Europe in Thane Rosenbaum's Second Hand Smoke and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Part 2: Folklore, Fantasy, and the Metanarrative -- 6. The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction -- 7. A Tale Told about Idiots: The Chelm Story and Holocaust Representation -- 8. Laughter and Trembling: The Short Fiction of Steve Stern and Nathan Englander -- 9. Metafictional Witnessing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Part 3: (Re)inscribing Jewish Text and Identity -- 10. Putting the "Jewish" Back in "Jewish American Fiction": A Look at Jewish American Fiction since 1977 and an Allegorical Reading of Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" -- 11. "Were it Not for the Yetzer Hara": Eating, Knowledge, and the Physical in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple -- 12. The Sweetheart Is Outside Herself: Writing the Contemporary Jewish American Writer in S. L. Wisenberg's Ceci Rubin Stories.13. Jewish American Fiction on the Border: Culture Confrontations, Double Consciousness, and Hybridity in the Work of Pearl Abraham -- Part 4: Authors in Their Own Words -- 14. Margins within the Margins: An Interview with Ruth Knafo Setton and Farideh Dayanim Goldin -- 15. Picturing American Stories: An Interview with Ben Katchor -- Questions for Discussion -- Contemporary Jewish American Fiction: A Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.American fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticismJewsUnited StatesIntellectual lifeJews in literatureAmerican fictionJewish authorsHistory and criticism.JewsIntellectual life.Jews in literature.813/.54098924Royal Derek Parker1963-1755008MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818936103321Unfinalized moments4191587UNINA