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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berger, Alan L., 1939-

Cronin, Gloria L., 1947-

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Judaism and literature--United States.

Judaism and literature.

Holocaust survivors in literature.

Judaism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 255 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791484449

0791484440

9781423740254

1423740254

OCLC:

62395530