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Young Lions : How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel / Leah Garrett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garrett, Leah, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Cultural expressions of World War II.
- Cultural expressions of World War II
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Finalist, 2015 National Jewish Book Awards in the American Jewish Studies category Winner, 2017 AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish History and Culture: Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly.
- Contents:
- The Jewish soldier and literary and historical precedents
- 1948 and the Pacific theater : The naked and the dead and An act of love
- 1948 and the Holocaust : The young lions, That winter, The crusaders, and Point of no return
- 1952 and the new conservatism : The Caine mutiny and Battle cry
- 1961 and the new liberalism : Catch-22.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3145-5
- OCLC:
- 916524749
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