- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 270 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Impossible Jew (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Impossible Jew (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-257) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: The school of criticism I wouldn't be caught dead in: a polemic on theorizing the field -- 1. Toward a critical semitism: on not answering the Jewish question in literary studies -- 2. Against the dialectic of nation: Abraham Cahan and desire's spectral Jew -- 3. The negative desire of Jewish representation; or, why were the New York intellectuals Jewish? -- 4. Why Jews aren't normal: the unrepresentable future of Philip Roth's the counterlife -- 5. 9/11's stealthy Jews: Jonathan Safran Foer and the irrepresentation of identity.
- LCCN
- 2014044422
- OCLC
- ssj0001497733
- Author
Schreier, Benjamin.
- Title
The impossible Jew [electronic resource] : identity and the reconstruction of Jewish American literary history / Benjamin Schreier.
- Imprint
New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-257) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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