Telling the little secrets
Subtitle: American Jewish writing since the 1980's
By: Janet Burstein.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Subjects: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature.
Table of contents: value: Riddling identity : the gates of Roth; value: Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs; value: Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions; value: Recalling "home" from exile; value: Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men; value: Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women; value: Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving forward.