LEADER 04863nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910451826303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6448-X 010 $a0-8014-6401-3 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464010 035 $a(CKB)2550000000101809 035 $a(OCoLC)797834378 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10563878 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000658257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681323 035 $a(PQKB)10094825 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001500158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138342 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28779 035 $a(DE-B1597)478576 035 $a(OCoLC)979575652 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464010 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138342 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10563878 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681793 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000101809 100 $a20111123d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRace, rights, and recognition$b[electronic resource] $eJewish American literature since 1969 /$fDean J. Franco 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (254 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50511-X 311 $a0-8014-5087-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism -- $tPart I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion -- $t1. Portnoy's Complaint: It's about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) -- $t2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter -- $t3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- $tPart II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility -- $t4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal's Her First American -- $t5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- $t6. Globalization's Complaint: Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture -- $tEpilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aJudaism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJudaism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aJudaism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aJudaism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aJudaism in literature. 676 $a810.9/8924 700 $aFranco$b Dean J.$f1968-$01048705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451826303321 996 $aRace, rights, and recognition$92489722 997 $aUNINA