Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature

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  • Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature Book Detail

  • Author : David Hadar
  • Release Date : 2020-07-23
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 213
  • ISBN 13 : 1501360922
  • File Size : 24,24 MB
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Affiliated Identities in Jewish American Literature by David Hadar PDF Summary

Book Description: Focusing on relationships between Jewish American authors and Jewish authors elsewhere in America, Europe, and Israel, this book explores the phenomenon of authorial affiliation: the ways in which writers intentionally highlight and perform their connections with other writers. Starting with Philip Roth as an entry point and recurring example, David Hadar reveals a larger network of authors involved in formations of Jewish American literary identity, including among others Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander. He also shows how Israeli writers such as Sayed Kashua perform their own identities through connections to Jewish Americans. Whether by incorporating other writers into fictional work as characters, interviewing them, publishing critical essays about them, or invoking them in paratext or publicity, writers use a variety of methods to forge public personas, craft their own identities as artists, and infuse their art with meaningful cultural associations. Hadar's analysis deepens our understanding of Jewish American and Israeli literature, positioning them in decentered relation with one another as well as with European writing. The result is a thought-provoking challenge to the concept of homeland that recasts each of these literary traditions as diasporic and questions the oft-assumed centrality of Hebrew and Yiddish to global Jewish literature. In the process, Hadar offers an approach to studying authorial identity-building relevant beyond the field of Jewish literature.

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Examines the works of key Jewish American authors to explore how the concept of identity is put to work by identity-based literary study.