A house of words
Subtitle: Jewish writing, identity, and memory
By: Norman Ravvin.
Series: McGills-Queen's studies in ethnic history ;
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montreal; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Canadian fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- United States.; Jews -- Canada -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- Canada.; Group identity in literature.; Memory in literature.; Jews in literature.; North America -- Intellectual life.
Description: Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform post-war Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West.

Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers, as well as placing their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.