Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition
Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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English
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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The “Jewishness” of recent American fiction has already been well explored. But discussion of the work of Jewish writers tends to be retrospective: it leads back to the shtetl and the shlemiel without considering how “Americanised” Jewish forms and themes have become. Clearly, recent authors such as Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow are...
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Versions of Immobility: The Contemporary American Writer and the Jewish Tradition
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1310516182
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1310516182
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0524-5001,0021-8758
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2053-5988
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10.1017/S0524500100002795
