The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

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Author: Hana Wirth-Nesher

ISBN-10: 0521796997

ISBN-13: 9780521796996

Category: American & Canadian Literature

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, and race.

List of contributorsChronologyIntroduction: Jewish American literatures in the making11Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history122Imagining Judaism in America313Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants504Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination705Hebrew literature in America926Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing1107Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture1298Jewish American poetry1499Jewish American writers on the Left17010Jewish American renaissance19011The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination21212Jewish American women writers and the race question23113On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics25014Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing269Index285