Legacy of rage : Jewish masculinity, violence, and culture / Warren Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Jewish authors.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Jews in literature.

Violence in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 312 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press, [2001]

Summary:

Reevaluates the cultural stereotype of the nonviolent Jewish male.

Contents:

1 Bugsy and Me: Jewish Men and Violence 1

2 "Devoted to Destruction": God and Violence in the Hebrew Scriptures 32

3 "A Heritage of Rage": Golems and Gimpels in Jewish Literature of the Early Twentieth Century 68

4 White Negroes and Protestant Jews: Norman Mailer's Hybrid Heroes and Jewish Male Violence 115

5 Mailer's Brothers: The "Counterlife" of Violence in Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth 153

6 Jewish Men with Guns: Remasculinization in Contemporary Jewish American Literature and Film 207

7 Beyond Mailer: Imagining an End to Violence in Cynthia Ozick and Tony Kushner 258

Epilogue: Saving Private Ryan 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

ISBN:

1558493034

OCLC:

47797307