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  • Titel: The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature
  • Enthält: Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making /Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer --Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history /Michael P. Kramer --Imagining Judaism in America /Susannah Heschel --Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants /Priscilla Wald --Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination /David G. Roskies --Hebrew literature in America /Alan Mintz --Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing /Hana Wirth-Nesher --Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture /Donald Weber --Jewish American poetry /Maeera Y. Shreiber --Jewish American writers on the left /Alan Wald --Jewish American Renaissance /Ruth R. Wisse --Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination /Emily Miller Budick --Jewish American women writers and the race question /Susan Gubar --On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics /Shira Wolosky --Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing /Tresa Grauer.
    Introduction:Jewish American literatures in the making / Hana Wirth-Nesher,
    Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history / Michael P. Kramer
    Imagining Judaism in America / Susannah Heschel
    Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants / Priscilla Wald
    Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination / David G. Roskies
    Hebrew literature in America / Alan Mintz
    Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing / Hana Wirth-Nesher
    Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture / Donald Weber
    Jewish American poetry / Maeera Y. Shreiber
    Jewish American writers on the left / Alan Wald
    Jewish American Renaissance / Ruth R. Wisse
    Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination / Emily Miller Budick
    Jewish American women writers and the race question / Susan Gubar
    On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics / Shira Wolosky
    Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing / Tresa Grauer.
  • Beteiligte: Wirth-Nesher, Hana [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]; Kramer, Michael P. [Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
  • Körperschaft: NetLibrary, Inc
  • Erschienen: Cambridge, U.K; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003
    Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
  • Erschienen in: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
  • Umfang: xvi, 296 p; 24 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0511063113; 0511071574; 9780511071577; 0521792932; 9780521792936; 0521796997; 9780521796996; 0511119135; 9780511119132; 9780511063114; 0511056788; 9780511056789
  • RVK-Notation: HU 1729 : Übrige ethnische Gruppen
  • Schlagwörter: USA > Literatur > Juden
    USA > Literatur > Juden
  • Reproduktionsreihe: E-Books von NetLibrary
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2004
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
  • Beschreibung: This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the Holocaust

    Introduction Jewish American literatures in the making Hana Wirth-Nesher Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber -- Jewish American poetry Maeera Y. Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald -- Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse -- Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar -- On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer