Race, rights, and recognition
Subtitle: Jewish American literature since 1969
By: Dean J. Franco
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780801450877
Subjects: Judaism and literature; Jewish authors; Jews; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Jews in literature; Judaism in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the politics and ethics of Jewish American literature and criticism; title: Portnoy's complaint : it's about race, not sex (even the sex is about race); title: Re-reading Cynthia Ozick : pluralism, postmodernism, and the multicultural encounter; title: The new, new pluralism : religion, community, and secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls; title: Recognition and effacement in Lore Segal's Her first American; title: Responsibility unveiled : Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul; title: Globalization's complaint : Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the culture of culture; title: Epilogue : less Absurdistan, more Boyle Heights.