Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making
- 1 Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history
- 2 Imagining Judaism in America
- 3 Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants
- 4 Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination
- 5 Hebrew literature in America
- 6 Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing
- 7 Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture
- 8 Jewish American poetry
- 9 Jewish American writers on the Left
- 10 Jewish American renaissance
- 11 The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination
- 12 Jewish American women writers and the race question
- 13 On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics
- 14 Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing
- Index
- Series List
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 May 2006
- Frontmatter
- Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making
- 1 Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history
- 2 Imagining Judaism in America
- 3 Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants
- 4 Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination
- 5 Hebrew literature in America
- 6 Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing
- 7 Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture
- 8 Jewish American poetry
- 9 Jewish American writers on the Left
- 10 Jewish American renaissance
- 11 The Holocaust in the Jewish American literary imagination
- 12 Jewish American women writers and the race question
- 13 On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics
- 14 Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing
- Index
- Series List
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- The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature , pp. 285 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003