The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
CHRONOLOGY......Page 12
Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making......Page 19
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 28
1 Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history......Page 30
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 47
2 Imagining Judaism in America......Page 49
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 66
3 Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants......Page 68
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 85
4 Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination......Page 88
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 108
5 Hebrew literature in America......Page 110
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 126
6 Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing......Page 128
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 145
7 Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture......Page 147
REFERENCES AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 164
Introduction......Page 167
Yiddish-in-America......Page 168
Jewish American modernism–with special reference to the Objectivists......Page 170
The middle generation: Muriel Rukeyser and Karl Shapiro......Page 174
Family matters: Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich......Page 177
The poem in the eye, the poem in the ear: the experimental poetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Irena Klepfisz......Page 182
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 186
The appeal of the Left......Page 188
The Jewish presence......Page 191
Genres of the Left......Page 194
Jewish American women......Page 197
African Americans and Jewish Americans......Page 199
Anti-fascism......Page 203
Ambivalent legacy......Page 204
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 206
10 Jewish American renaissance......Page 208
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 226
11 The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination......Page 230
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 247
12 Jewish American women writers and the race question......Page 249
NOTES......Page 265
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13 On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics......Page 268
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 285
14 Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing......Page 287
Religious practice, belief, and ritual......Page 292
Place, nationality, exile, and home......Page 295
REFERENCES AND SELECTED FURTHER READINGS......Page 300
INDEX......Page 303