Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections

ISBN-13: 9780333740354 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 222 str.

Dr David Brauner

Opis

In this ground-breaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in key works by post-war British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson, and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

Recenzje

'This is a valuable comparative study...' - Religious Studies Review

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Spis treści

Acknowledgements Preface Explaining Themselves: Ambivalent Representations of Jewishness in Postwar British and American Fiction The Gentile who Mistook Himself for a Jew Nature Anxiety, Homosocial Desire and (Sub)urban Paranoia: The Jewish Anti-Pastoral Breaking the Silence: Jewish Women Writing the War and the War After Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Portrait of the Artist as a Jew(ish Other) Notes Index

O autorze

DAVID BRAUNER is Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Reading, Berkshire. He has published articles on Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley and a number of other contemporary fiction writers.