A House of Words: Volume 27
Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory
Norman Ravvin(Autor*in)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Erschienen am 15. Oktober 1997
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Hardcover
208 Seiten
978-0-7735-1664-9 (ISBN)
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Beschreibung
Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.
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"An interesting and impressive collection of essays. Ravvin's arguments are convincing and provocative." Michael Greenstein, author of Third Solitudes: Tradition and Continuity in Jewish-Canadian LiteratureWeitere Details
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Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal
Kanada
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
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978-0-7735-1664-9 (9780773516649)
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Norman Ravvin, chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is a fiction and non-fiction writer and editor. His books include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory.
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