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The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

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Joshua Logan Wall
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788789
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...
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Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post- Tom Plantation Novel

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David Anthony
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 295–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529155
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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Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature; Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness ; Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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Jules Chametzky
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 878–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-060
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...
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Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature

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Michael Nowlin
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 885–887.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-885
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...
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The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature

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Joshua Logan Wall
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722200
Published: 01 September 2019
...Joshua Logan Wall The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Jeanne Heuving . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xv, 240 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi...
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Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer

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Stephanie Foote
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-119
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...
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The History of Jewish American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence

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Benjamin Schreier
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335373
Published: 01 March 2019
... not a Jewish writer, I am a writer who is a Jew” (quoted in American Jewish Congress 1963 , 35). 23 In 1988 Bellow muscularly declared, “If the WASP aristocrats wanted to think of me as a Jewish poacher on their precious cultural estates then let them” and memorably, in 1969, “This tendency to turn Malamud...
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Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

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Elizabeth Freeman
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811730
Published: 01 December 2014
... . “ A Book of Repulsive Jews? Rereading Nightwood .” Review of Contemporary Fiction 13 , no. 3 : 160 – 71 . Anidjar Gil . 2009 . “ We Have Never Been Jewish: An Essay in Asymmetric Hematology .” In Jewish Blood: Reality and Metaphor in History, Religion, and Culture , edited by Hart...
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Distrusting: Marianne Moore on Feeling and War in the 1940s

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Cristanne Miller
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 353–379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-006
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...
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Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary

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Timothy Marr
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959589
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...
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This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

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Nicolas S. Witschi
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959598
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...
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez

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Sarah Schiff
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959607
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...
View articletitled, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez View PDF for article titled, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

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Allison S. Curseen
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959616
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...
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Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

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Magdalena J. Zaborowska
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 195–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959643
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...
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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness

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Dean Franco
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959634
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...
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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Race in American Science Fiction

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Ramzi Fawaz
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959652
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...
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The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq

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Kathleen McClancy
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959661
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...
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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335633
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...
View articletitled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy View PDF for article titled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy
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From Sympathy to Empathy: Anzia Yezierska and the Transformation of the American Subject

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Ann Mikkelsen
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-005
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...
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

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Sari Altschuler
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894
Published: 01 September 2017
.... of North Carolina Press . First published 1856. Sue Eugène . 1845 . The Wandering Jew . London : Appleyard . First published (French) 1844. Swift Jonathan . 1937 . “ The Lady’s Dressing Room .” In The Poems of Jonathan Swift , 2 : 524 – 30 . Oxford : Clarendon Press . First...
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