Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative / / edited by Derek Parker Royal
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| Autore: |
Royal Derek Parker <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative / / edited by Derek Parker Royal
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| Pubblicazione: | West Lafayette, Ind., : Purdue University Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54098924 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism |
| Jews - United States - Intellectual life | |
| Jews in literature | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-250) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Unfinalized moments |
| ISBN: | 1-280-12853-4 |
| 9786613532411 | |
| 1-61249-162-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818936103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Shofar supplements in Jewish studies.