The Short Stories of Bernard Malamud
Subtitle: In Search of Jewish Post-Immigrant Identity (Twentieth Century American Jewish Writers)
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: September 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780820438399
Subjects: Jewish studies; Literary studies: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Short stories; Malamud, Bernard, 1914-1986; Literary Criticism; English; USA; Jewish; Short Stories (single author); Criticism and interpretation; Group identity in literature; Immigrants in literature; Malamud, Bernard; National characteristics, Amer; National characteristics, American, in literature
Description: The Short Stories of Bernard Malamud is a study of how Malamud's anthology attempts to re-capture the poetic subject's identity, behind whose mask the author lies. Dr. Sio-Castineira's study demonstrates how Malamud seeks to capture an instance of identity by means of denouncing the isolation caused both by extreme Jewish orthodoxy and brutal assimilation, and proclaiming his faith in the potential contained in the individual mind as the only way to recuperate a sense of self.