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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 295–322.
Published: 01 June 2019
...David Anthony Abstract This essay focuses on the consistently deployed but previously unnoticed figure of the Jew in the post– Uncle Tom’s Cabin plantation novel, whether “anti- Tom ” or abolitionist in orientation. I argue that this character does complex ideological work in these novels...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Joshua Logan Wall The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History . By Schreier Benjamin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 270 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 885–887.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of these criticisms, Peterson
has produced a wonderful text, a must-read for anyone interested in the under-
currents of Western modernity.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Bowdoin College
Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature.By
Ethan Goffman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 878–879.
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 194 pp. $39.95. Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. By Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 662 pp. $35.00. Book Reviews
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 September 2019
...-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi Seidman . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 368 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 What’s love got...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2003
... dilemma: under the ‘‘Jewish’’ appellation Sidney Luska, he
produced a series of novels whose plots feature a combination of Jew-
ish characters, subplots, and contexts. Although not Jewish himself,
American Literature...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., often dismissed by ethnic studies and literature departments, presumably because American Jews don’t count as one of the privileged ethnic identities and certainly because Jewish American literary study has mostly refused the substantive theorization of identity that is characteristic of much “studies...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
Published: 01 December 2014
...
It’s easy, and tempting, to see this eaten body and poured-out blood
as a radical reorganization of corporeal connectivity, and indeed this is
what I’ve been suggesting. But Nightwood complicates this sacrament
by reminding us of the role of the Jew in blood theology. The novel’s fig-
ure...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2008
...
references to war with hopeful imperatives: on the one hand, implicit
reference to Hitler as the singular “blind / man who thinks he sees,”
as “enslaver” and “hater” and, on the other, a call to Jews, Chris-
tians, and Africans to “be joined at last, be / joined.” In her notebook,
Moore...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability that remains iden-
tifiably Jewish? One book finds the answer in material things, another fol-
lows more recent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00;
e-book, $23.95.
Two new books approach a vexing issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2013
... issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability that remains iden-
tifiably Jewish? One book finds the answer in material things, another fol-
lows more recent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00;
e-book, $23.95.
Two new books approach a vexing issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00;
e-book, $23.95.
Two new books approach a vexing issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00;
e-book, $23.95.
Two new books approach a vexing issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability that remains iden-
tifiably Jewish? One book finds the answer in material things, another fol-
lows more recent trends by moving the terms of the question around to the
answer.
198 American Literature
Ken Koltun...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00;
e-book, $23.95.
Two new books approach a vexing issue at the heart of Jewish cultural stud-
ies: given the plural histories, geographical dispersion, religious diversity,
and racial complexity of Jews, is there a material stability...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 March 2019
... writers resisted ethnic invisibility and assimilation into whiteness through a strategic reracialization that involved transracial black identifications. Postwar Jewish writing expressed a doubleness as it sought both to reracialize Jewish identity and to insist that Jews, due to their singular experience...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
...
such as Yezierska had a complex perspective on the nature of value
and the commodity. Having largely taken over and greatly expanded
the cloak-and-suit business from German Jews, Eastern European
Jews had a thorough knowledge of the mass-market garment indus-
try. Simultaneously, Jews were becoming...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
Published: 01 September 2017
... . Stowe Harriet Beecher . 2000 . Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp . Edited by Levine Robert S. . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . First published 1856. Sue Eugène . 1845 . The Wandering Jew . London : Appleyard . First published (French) 1844. Swift Jonathan...
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