Jewish American and Holocaust literature : representation in the postmodern world / / edited by Alan L. Berger and Gloria L. Cronin

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: ix, 255 p
• Disciplina: 810.9/8924
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Literature and the war; American literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) - United States; Jews - United States - Intellectual life; Judaism and literature - United States; Holocaust survivors in literature; Judaism in literature; Jews in literature
• Altri autori: BergerAlan L. <1939-> CroninGloria L. <1947->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Jewish American and Holocaust Literature -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ALAN L. BERGER AND GLORIA L. CRONIN -- PART ONE: Holocaust Literature -- 1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding ALAN L. BERGER -- 2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World: Ida Fink's Witnesses ELLEN S. FINE -- 3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn't He? HARRY JAMES CARGAS -- 4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major European Writers Who Experienced the Holocaust HUGH NISSENSON -- 5. Memory and Collective Identity: Narrative Strategies Against Forgetting in Contemporary Literary Responses to the Holocaust GERHARD BACH -- 6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" MARIANNE M. FRIEDRICH -- 7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Land and Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld GILA SAFRAN NAVEH -- 8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within: The Power of Fiction in the Writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein SUSAN E. NOWAK -- 9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World THANE ROSENBAUM -- PART TWO: Jewish American Literature -- 10. Africanity and the Collapse of American Culture in the Novels of Saul Bellow GLORIA L. CRONIN -- 11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow: From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker SARAH BLACHER COHEN -- 12. Philip Roth and Jewish American Literature at the Millennium BONNIE LYONS -- 13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred "Neshamas" EVELYN AVERY -- 14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen's "Eve's Apple" SUZANNE EVERTSEN LUNDQUIST -- 15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/ Through a Female Lens S. LILLIAN KREMER -- 16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes MIRIYAM GLAZER -- 17. Restorying Jewish Mothers JANET BURSTEIN -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K. ; L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jewish American and Holocaust literature
• ISBN: 0-7914-8444-0; 1-4237-4025-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808351903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.