Salvage Poetics

Released on by Sheila E. Jelen
preview-18

  • Salvage Poetics Book Detail

  • Author : Sheila E. Jelen
  • Release Date : 2020-04-14
  • Publisher : Wayne State University Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 442
  • ISBN 13 : 0814343198
  • File Size : 78,78 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Salvage Poetics by Sheila E. Jelen PDF Summary

Book Description: An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America. This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a post-Holocaust American one. In her analysis of a variety of "hybrid" texts—those that exist on the border between ethnography and art—Jelen traces the gradual shift from verbal to visual Jewish literacy among Jewish Americans after the Holocaust. S. Ansky's ethnographic expedition (1912–1914) and Martin Buber's adaptation and compilation of Hasidic tales (1906–1935) are presented as a means of contextualizing the role of an ethnographic consciousness in modern Jewish experience and the way in which literary adaptations and mediations create opportunities for the creation of folk ethnographic hybrid texts. Salvage Poetics looks at classical texts of the American Jewish experience in the second half of the twentieth century, such as Maurice Samuel's The World of Sholem Aleichem (1944), Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Earth Is the Lord's (1950), Elizabeth Herzog and Mark Zborowski's Life Is with People(1952), Lucy Dawidowicz's The Golden Tradition(1967), and Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World (1983), alongside other texts that consider the symbiotic relationship between pre-Holocaust aesthetic artifacts and their postwar reframings and reconsiderations. Salvage Poetics is particularly attentive to how literary scholars deploy the notion of "ethnography" in their readings of literature in languages and/or cultures that are considered "dead" or "dying" and how their definition of an "ethnographic" literary text speaks to and enhance the scientific discipline of ethnography. This book makes a fresh contribution to the fields of American Jewish cultural and literary studies and art history.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Salvage Poetics books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Salvage Poetics

Salvage Poetics

File Size : 51,51 MB
Total View : 1488 Views
DOWNLOAD

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America. This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, sch

Jewish Literature and History

Jewish Literature and History

File Size : 96,96 MB
Total View : 1137 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines the relationship between Jewish literature and the historical setting in which it was written. The types of literature analyzed in this study

Modern Jewish Literatures

Modern Jewish Literatures

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 4748 Views
DOWNLOAD

Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lack

Testimonial Montage

Testimonial Montage

File Size : 19,19 MB
Total View : 7684 Views
DOWNLOAD

Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors