Exiles on Main Street
Subtitle: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Jewish Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: June 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780253350817
Subjects: Fiction; Jewish Studies; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; American - General; Jewish - General; American literature; Group identity in literature; History and criticism; Identity; Jewish authors; Jews; United States
Description: "How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture - in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman - led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews."--BOOK JACKET.