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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 May 2006
      12 June 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511998751
      9780521792936
      9780521796996
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521792932
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

    Reviews

    ‘… some exceptional essays in the collection …’.

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

    ‘This Companion is a very good read which may serve as a measuring rod of current trends.’

    Source: Cercles

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