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What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction

Title: What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.
Author: Aarons, Victoria.
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2005], ©2005.

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181 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America. In attempting to locate a place for Jewish identity at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, American Jewish writers look to an imaginary "memory" to reengage a defining, central Jewish history that has, post-World War II, become diluted in American culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-176) and index.

Contents

1. The return of the covenant : or, whose law is it, anyway? -- 2. Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant -- 3. Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness -- 4. Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem" -- 5. The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz -- 6. The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.

ISBN

0874139015 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004015173

OCLC

ocm55948124
SCSB-5165036

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