Post-war Jewish fiction
Subtitle: ambivalence, self-explanation and transatlantic connections
By: David Brauner.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Jews -- English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life.; Judaism and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Jewish fiction -- History and criticism.; Ambivalence in literature.; Judaism in literature.; Jews in literature.
Description: "In this study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by post-war British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms.

Through readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

This is a book which will be indispensable to scholars and students in the field and should also introduce a new generation of Jewish and non-Jewish readers to a new generation of Jewish writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: 1 Explaining Themselves: Ambivalent Representations of; title: Jewishness in Post-War British- and American-Jewish; title: Fiction; title: Jewishness; title: Jewish fiction; title: Post-war; title: British-Jewish; title: American-Jewish; title: Ambivalence; title: Explaining themselves; title: 2 The Gentile Who Mistook Himself for a Jew; title: 3 Nature Anxiety, Homosocial Desire and (Sub)urban; title: Paranioa: the Jewish Anti-Pastoral; title: 4 Breaking the Silence: Jewish Women Writing the War; title: and the War After; title: American-Jewish women and the short story; title: British-Jewish women: life as fiction, fiction as life; title: S Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair Portraits of the Artist; title: as a Jew(ish Other); title: Philip Roth; title: Clive Sinclair; title: Afterword; title: Notes; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index; title: '::.