Impossible Jew

Name: Impossible Jew
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Identity and Critique in Jewish American Literature

Autor: Benjamin Schreier

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He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Je...

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Autor

Benjamin Schreier

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

256

EAN

9781479868681

ISBN

147986868X

Enbook ID

09240903

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

568

Dimensiuni

236 x 159 x 27

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He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies; suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept critical literary studies as a legitimate part of its project; and so often refusing itself to engage in self-critique. The Impossible Jew interrogates how the concept of identity is critically put to work by identity-based literary study. Through readings of key authors from across the canon of Jewish American literature and culture--including Abraham Cahan, the New York Intellectuals, Philip Roth, and Jonathan Safran Foer--Benjamin Schreier shows how texts resist the historicist expectation that self-evident Jewish populations are represented in and recoverable from them. Through ornate, scabrous, funny polemics, Schreier draws the lines of relation between Jewish American literary study and American studies, multiethnic studies, critical theory, and Jewish Studies formations. He maintains that a Jewish Studies beyond ethnicity is essential for a viable future of Jewish literary study.

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