LEADER 05548nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910963054103321 005 20251117083642.0 010 $a1-280-12853-4 010 $a9786613532411 010 $a1-61249-162-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000184604 035 $a(OCoLC)785870854 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10547139 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649949 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11383244 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649949 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610650 035 $a(PQKB)11517126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3119196 035 $a(BIP)46373608 035 $a(BIP)34084065 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000184604 100 $a20110926d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnfinalized moments $eessays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative /$fedited by Derek Parker Royal 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. $cPurdue University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aShofar supplements in Jewish studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-55753-584-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 327 $a13. 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. 330 $aFocusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection of essays on this subject matter with contributions from the leading scholars in the field. The manuscript does not attempt to foreground any one critical agenda, such as Holocaust writing, engagements with Zionism, feminist studies, postmodern influences, or multiculturalism. Instead, it celebrates the presence of a newly robust, diverse, and ever-evolving body of Jewish American fiction. This literature has taken a variety of forms with its negotiations of orthodoxy, its representations of a post-Holocaust world, its reassertion of folkloric tradition, its engagements with postmodernity, its reevaluations of Jewishness, and its alternative delineations of ethnic identity. Discussing the work of authors such as Allegra Goodman, Michael Chabon, Tova Mirvis, Rebecca Goldstein, Pearl Abraham, Jonathan Rosen, Nathan Englander, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Tova Reich, Sarah Schulman, Ruth Knafo Setton, Ben Katchor, and Jonathan Safran Foer, the fifteen contributors in this collection assert the ongoing vitality and ever-growing relevancy of Jewish American fiction. 410 0$aShofar supplements in Jewish studies. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews$zUnited States$xIntellectual life 606 $aJews in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aJews in literature. 676 $a813/.54098924 700 $aRoyal$b Derek Parker$f1963-$01860909 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963054103321 996 $aUnfinalized moments$94466870 997 $aUNINA