ABSTRACT
Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish American Literature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. The theoretical underpinnings of the literature--including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction--are also introduced in an accessible form. The themes, issues and philosophies of key writers such as Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related, and wider literary and historical topics are explained.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |19 pages
The Mediation of Jewishness in Cultural Texts
Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Paul Auster and Woody Allen
chapter |18 pages
Relocating Moralism in Jewish America
Past and Present in Chaim Potok and the Later Saul Bellow