Ohad Reznick

The Jew in the American War Novel (eBook, PDF)

1920s-2020s

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book of its kind to provide an analysis of the representation of Jews in American war novels throughout the long twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040342442
• Artikelnr.: 73434857

Autorenporträt

Ohad Reznick teaches American literature at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Imagined Non-Jews: Jews Passing as Gentiles in Post-WWII and Multicultural American Fiction (2024). His articles appear in MELUS, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Relationship between Jewish Americans and Wars
Chapter 1: The Interwar Period-the Jew as an Unmasculine Man who Evades the
War
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: The Jew as Imitating the Real Male
John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers: The "Kike" who is Proven Right
Chapter 2: The 1940s-1950s - Oversimplifying the Jewish/American Conflict
Irwin Shaw's Young Lions: Anti-Semitism as a Threat to Democracy
Wasteland: The Merger of Jewish and Non-Jewish Blood
Chapter 3: The 1960s-1980s-Jewish Wars
War and Remembrance: WWII and Saving Jews
Crescent City: A Jewish War Against Slavery and Chauvinism
Chapter 4: The 1990s-2020s-The Jews as Separate from Other Americans
All Other Nights: A Clash Between the Two Identities
The Living and the Lost: The Holocaust as Shaping Jewish Identity
Epilogue: Blood, Evading Draft, and Anti-Semitism in The Human Stain
Index