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Borrowed voices: writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination

By Glaser , Jennifer

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780813577425, 081357742X
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1404120 bytes)
Pages
Online Ressource\214
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
American literature;American literature--History aetc;American literature -- Jewish authors --etc.--United States;Identity (Psychology) in literinterpretation

Description

In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Considering works by everyone from Cynthia Ozick to Woody Allen to Michael Chabon, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.

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