Telling the little secrets : American Jewish writing since the 1980s /

Telling the little secrets : American Jewish writing since the 1980s /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burstein, Janet
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Jews in literature.
Judaism in literature.
Jews > United States > Intellectual life.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Riddling identity : the gates of Roth
  • Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs
  • Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions
  • Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past
  • Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men
  • Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women
  • Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.