- Paperback: 316 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (12 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0521796997
- ISBN-13: 978-0521796996
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,242,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'… some exceptional essays in the collection …'. Times Literary Supplement
'This Companion is a very good read which may serve as a measuring rod of current trends.' Cercles
'This Companion is a very good read which may serve as a measuring rod of current trends.' Cercles
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For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
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Jewish American Literature Finding its Place, 24 Nov 2005
By Leah Michelson "Writer-in-Training" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
I think that this book is an amazing attempt to do the impossible- to really define what Jewish American Literature is and can be.
Allen Hoffman, author of "Small Worlds" and "Two for the Devil" says that Jewish Literature is "whatever makes you reach for the herring."
The authors of this compilation take it a little further and really get into the heart of Jewish writing. If you want to understand Jewish culture, Jewish literature, or American minority literature, this book is a must-read.
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