Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern

ISBN-13: 9780415875868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 274 str.

Neil Davison

Opis

This study examines the impact of racial and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers, including Hemingway, Joyce, and Roth, during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these authors and others, Davison demonstrates how religious-based prejudices as well as doctrinal Judaic concepts were sustained in the discourse of race and gender surrounding "the Jew." In general, the project thus engages a dynamic composed of the historically constitutive Jewish racial portrait, the psychosexual impact of that racial theory as internalized by Jewish males, and differing or conflicting discussions of Judaic-based gender and codes of male behavior. By focusing alternately on gentile and Jewish writers, Davison explores how the racial/gender construct of "the feminized Jew" was pivotal to each in negotiating male-selfhood during his encounter with modernity.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The Jew" as Homme/Femme Fatale: Jewish (Art)ifice, Trilby, and Drefyus 2: Emancipation to Die Muskeljüden: Zionism, Masculinity, and the Liberated Jewish Body 3: The Feminized Jewish Pugilist: Racial Ambivalence and Weak Muscle-Jews 4: Gendered-Jewishness in Ulysses: Bloom as Semi-queer Jew 5: From Klugman to Pipik: Philip Roth and Postcolonial/Postmodern Old-New Jewish Gender Coda Notes Index

O autorze

Neil R. Davison is Associate Professor of Modernism, Irish Studies, and Jewish Cultural Studies in the Department of English at Oregon State University. He is the author of James Joyce, Ulysses, and the Construction of Jewish Identity (Cambridge, 1996)