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The passing game : queering Jewish American culture

Title
The passing game : queering Jewish American culture / Warren Hoffman.
Author
Hoffman, Warren.
Publication
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.

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Description
xi, 206 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Uniform Title
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
Subject
  • American literature > Jewish authors > History and criticism
  • Yiddish literature > United States > History and criticism
  • Jews in literature
  • Gender identity in literature
  • Passing (Identity) in literature
  • Theater, Yiddish > United States > History > 20th century
  • Jews > United States > Identity
  • Queer theory
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index.
Contents
Lost in translation, or, The epistemology of Sholem Asch's Got fun nekome -- The rise (and fall) of David Levinsky : performing Jewish American heterosexuality -- Oy, is this a girl!/? : Molly Picon and cross-dressed passing -- Coming out of the "closet" at midcentury : Jo Sinclair's Wasteland -- Butching it up : male hysteria and heterosexual performance in Portnoy's complaint -- Androgynous tales : gender ambiguity in the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Call Number
*PAV 09-3039
ISBN
  • 9780815632023 (alk. paper)
  • 0815632029 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2008050494
OCLC
282950964
Author
Hoffman, Warren.
Title
The passing game : queering Jewish American culture / Warren Hoffman.
Imprint
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index.
Research Call Number
*PAV 09-3039
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