Benjamin Schreier

Gebundenes Buch

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity

Beschreibung

In a polemic against the unexamined foundations and stagnant state of the field, Benjamin Schreier critically analyzes a series of professionally powerful clichés about Jewish American literary history and how they came into being on the way to contesting the foundational ethnological presuppositions of Jewish Studies.

Autor

Benjamin Schreier is the Mitrani Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literature and The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature.

Produktdetails

• Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252576
• ISBN-10: 0812252578
• Artikelnr.: 58813061