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Inevitable exiles : Cynthia Ozick's view of the precariousness of Jewish existence in a gentile society / Vera Emuna Kielsky.
LIBRA PS3565.Z5 Z7 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kielsky, Vera Emuna, 1928-
- Series:
- Twentieth century American Jewish writers ; v. 2.
- Twentieth century American Jewish writers ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ozick, Cynthia--Criticism and interpretation.
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- Ozick, Cynthia--Characters--Jews.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Jewish women--United States--Intellectual life.
- Jewish women.
- Marginality, Social, in literature.
- Jews in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--20th century.
- Jewish women--Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Ozick, Cynthia.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction--20th century.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, ©1989.
- Summary:
- A study of Cynthia Ozick's short stories, analyzing her view of the place of the Jew in Gentile society (including persecution). Major themes in Ozick's writings are examined, such as the conflicts between Judaism and secularism, between prophecy and nature, and the individual within society at large. What separates Jews from Gentiles is their history, their martyrdom, especially when linked with the monstrosity of the Holocaust. Without this history there is no distinction between Jews and non-Jews. Ozick's protagonists, physically and emotionally injured, and trapped in a crisis of identity, are the inevitable exiles of social, historical, and psychological cataclysm. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Introduction
- Notes
- pt. 2. "You don't forgive what can't occur" the Gentile and Jewish assessments of history
- "The suitcase"
- "A mercenary"
- "Levitation"
- "Bloodshed"
- pt. 3. The seductions and delusions of nature
- "The Pagan Rabbi"
- " The dock-witch"
- pt. 4. Deception and self-deception in the quest for self-realization and fulfillment
- "Virility"
- "Envy, or Yiddish in America"
- "An education"
- "Puttermesser and Xanthippe"
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820408727
- 9780820408729
- OCLC:
- 18463288
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