What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction /

What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aarons, Victoria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005]
Subjects:
American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
Covenants > Religious aspects > Judaism.
Judaism and literature > United States.
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway?
  • Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant
  • Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness
  • Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem"
  • The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz
  • The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.