Chametzky, Jules.

Our decentralized literature : cultural mediations in selected Jewish and Southern writers / Jules Chametzky. - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. - 1 online resource (x, 155 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Controlling language and culture: Our decentralized literature: the significance of regional, ethnic, racial, and sexual factors -- The assimilation of the American Jewish writer: Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow -- Immigrant fiction as cultural mediation -- History, myth, and the ethnic question: History in I.B. Singer's novels -- Edward Dahlberg: the Jewish orphan in America -- Elmer Rice, liberation, and the great ethnic question -- The Southerner as all-American writer: Realism, cultural politics, and language as mediation in Mark Twain -- Thomas Wolfe and the cult of experience -- Styron's Sophie's choice: Jews and other marginals.

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American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--Southern States
Judaism and literature--History.--United States
Jews in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American literature.
American literature--Jewish authors.
Jews in literature.
Judaism and literature.
Literature.
Litt�erature am�ericaine--Auteurs juifs--Histoire et critique .
Litt�erature am�ericaine--Histoire et critique.--Etats-Unis (sud)
Juifs dans la litt�erature am�ericaine.


Southern States--In literature.
Southern States.
United States.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.

PS153.J4 / C46 1986eb

810/.9/8924