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1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
Postmodern studies ; v. 53
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Postmodern studies ; v. 53.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and "impious" ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Nathan Englander, this book suggests that this literature cannot simply be dismissed as insensitive or improper. It argues that these Jewish American authors engage with the Holocaust in ways that renew and ensure its significance for contemporary generations. These ways, moreover, are intricately connected to efforts of finding new means of expressing Jewish American identity, and of moving beyond the increasingly apparent problems of postmodernism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Memory -- 1. Historical Consciousness and the Americanization of the Holocaust -- 2. Dynamic of Distance -- Memory of the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay -- pt. 2 Identity -- 3. Jewish American Identity and the Holocaust -- 4. Inventing Jewish Worlds -- Identity, History, and the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, The Ministry of Special Cases, and The Yiddish Policemen's Union -- pt. 3 (Post- postmodernism -- 5. Cultivating the Desert Pragmatist Reconfigurations of Postmodernism -- 6. Post-Postmodern "Entertainment" The Holocaust and Renewalism in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, and Great House. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Jewish authors. |
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American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Krijnen, Joost. Holocaust impiety in Jewish American literature. Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2016] 9789004253230 (DLC) 2016008237 |
| ISBN |
9004316078 (E-book) |
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9789004316072 (electronic book) |
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9789004253230 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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