Modern Jewish Women Writers in America

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53802-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Avery, E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE EARLY YEARS - IN SEARCH OF THE PROMISED LAND: 1910-1950s * Re-Thinking Mary Antin and The Promised Land - Jules Chametzky * Anzia Yezierska: Between Two Worlds; Bound to the Old, Longing for the New - Evelyn Avery * Edna Ferber, Jewish American Writer: Who Knew? - Eileen Watts * PART II:THE ROADS DIVERGE  - ASSIMILATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS: 1960s-1990s * “My Own Design”: Finding Identity in Anne Roiphe’s Writing - Melanie Levinson * Johanna Kaplan: The Author and Her Fiction - Nahma Sandrow and Carol Iannone * Norma Rosen’s Jewish Journey - Anne Shapiro * PART III: THE COVENANT CONFIRMED?: 1990s-2000  * Cynthia Ozick’s Puttermesser Papers: From Whimsy to Wisdom - Sarah Blacher Cohen * Rebecca Goldstein: Tension and Ambivalence - Anna P. Ronell * Dancing Before the Bride: An Autobiography - Miriyam Glazer * Fantasies of Change in Allegra Goodman’s Fiction - Victoria Aarons *  PART IV: INTRO INTO THE 21ST CENTURY: THE PENDULUM SWINGS * In Hitler’s Embrace: “Love”  between Jews and Germans in Binnie Kirschenbaum’s Fiction - Susanne Klingenstein * “Writing Between Worlds” - Tova Mirvis * Across the Generations: A Conversation - Evelyn Avery & Tova Mirvis * Annotated Select Bibliography, Jewish American Women Authors - Eileen Watts

Über Autor(innen)

Evelyn Avery is Professor of English and Director of Jewish Studies at Towson University.