Title: Young lions
Description: "Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller's Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American public's ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. In contrast to most previous war fiction these new Jewish war novels were often ironic, funny, and irreverent and sought to teach the reading public broader lessons about liberalism, masculinity, and pluralism"--Page 4 of cover.
Subjects: Jewish authors, World War, 1939-1945, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Literature and the war, American literature, jewish authors, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, World war, 1939-1945, united states, World war, 1939-1945, literature and the war
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century