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Creative Awakening: Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century American Literature, 1900-1940's (Contributions in Ethnic Studies)
 
 
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Creative Awakening: Jewish Presence in Twentieth-century American Literature, 1900-1940's (Contributions in Ethnic Studies) (Hardcover)

by L. Harap (Author) "Participation in American literature by Jews before the twentieth century was meager ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Greenwood Press (18 Mar 1987)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0313253862
  • ISBN-13: 978-0313253867
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 2.1 cm
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?Harap provides a selective socioliterary survey of works reflecting their particular decade. His discussions range from cursory plot summaries to more extensive analyses. Both a historical and a literary context are furnished in each of the five sections, and the treatment of the Jew is seen through the writings of both Jewish and non-Jewish authors. Contemporary literary criticism frequently accompanies his commentaries. Among the authors authentically depicting acculturation of the first- and second-generation Jew, Harap examines Abraham Cahan, Samuel Ornitz, Meyer Levin, Michael Gold, Daniel Fuchs, and Henry Roth. To the Jewish proletarian novelist of the 1930s, acculturation became synonymous with assimilation into the socialist ideology. John Dos Passos and James T. Farrell are singled out as non-Jewish proletarian writers who objectively depicted the Jews of this period. Harap documents other non-Jewish depictions, which range from the virulent anti-Semitism of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser to the ambivalence of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. He traces Faulkner's gradual attitudinal change. Particulary noted is the irony of Jewish novelists addressing the anti-Semitism they themselves encountered in a US Army pitted against the Nazis. Interesting insight is provided in a chapter on Jewish anti-Semitism. Undergraduate and graduate levels.?-Choice
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