Benjamin Schreier

The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature

Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. What's the "History" in "Jewish American Literary History"
the History Of?
Chapter 1. The History of Jewish American Literary History: "Breakthrough"
and the Institutional Rhetoric of Identity
Chapter 2. Before Jewish American Literature
Chapter 3. After Jewish American Literature
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments