Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.
Challenging the notion that Jewish American and Holocaust literature have exhausted their limits, this volume reexamines these closely linked traditions in light of recent postmodern theory. Composed against the tumultuous background of great cultural transition and unprecedented state-sponsored systematic murder, Jewish American and Holocaust literature both address the concerns of postmodern human existence in extremis. In addition to exploring how various mythic and literary themes are deconstructed in the lurid light of Auschwitz, this book provides critical reassessments of Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, and Philip Roth, as well as contemporary Jewish American writers who are extending this vibrant tradition into the new millennium. These essays deepen and enrich our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Alan L. Berger, Gloria L. Cronin
PART ONE: HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding
Alan L. Berger
2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World: Ida Fink’s Hidden Witnesses
Ellen S. Fine
3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn’t He?
Harry James Cargas
4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major European Writers Who Experienced the Holocaust
Hugh Nissenson
5. Memory and Collective Identity: Narrative Strategies Against Forgetting in Contemporary Literary Responses to the Holocaust
Gerhard Bach
6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl
Marianne M. Friedrich
7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Land and Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld
Gila Safran Naveh
8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within: The Power of Fiction in the Writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein
Susan E. Nowak
9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World
Thane Rosenbaum
PART TWO: JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
10. Africanity and the Collapse of American Culture in the Novels of Saul Bellow
Gloria L. Cronin
11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow: From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker
Sarah Blacher Cohen
12. Philip Roth and Jewish American Literature at the Millennium
Bonnie Lyons
13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred Neshamas
Evelyn Avery
14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen’s Eve’s Apple
Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist
15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/Through a Female Lens
S. Lillian Kremer
16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes
Miriyam Glazer
17. Restorying Jewish Mothers
Janet Burstein
Contributors
Index
Despre autor
Alan L. Berger is Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair of Holocaust Studies and Director of Judaic Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Crisis and Covenant: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, also published by SUNY Press; editor of Judaism in the Modern World; and coeditor of Methodology in the Academic Teaching of the Holocaust.
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