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

By David Brauner

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0333740351, 9780333740354, 9780230501492
LCC
PS374.J48 B73 2001
Open Library ID
OL3943451M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
658 kB (673686 bytes)
Pages
236\235
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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