Borrowed voices : writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination /
Jennifer Glaser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The politics and poetics of speaking the other -- The perils of loving in America -- What we talk about when we talk about the Holocaust -- The Jew in the canon and culture wars -- Race, indigeneity, and the topography of diaspora in contemporary Jewish American literature -- Coda.
In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Considering works by everyone from Cynthia Ozick to Woody Allen to Michael Chabon, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.
9780813577425 081357742X 9780813577418 0813577411
22573/ctt19qvtph JSTOR
2015024446
1900-1999
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism. American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Jews--Intellectual life.--United States Jews in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Race in literature. Intermarriage in literature. Culture in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General. LITERARY CRITICISM--Jewish. American literature. American literature--Jewish authors. Culture in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Intermarriage in literature. Jews in literature. Jews--Intellectual life. Race in literature.