UID:
almafu_9960177741002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (217 p.)
ISBN:
1-5013-2473-X
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1-5013-0458-5
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1-62892-504-3
Inhalt:
"Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Inhalt:
"Uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problematics of victimization, gender, racism and anti-Semitism"--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Jewish Anxiety: "Goodbye Columbus," "Eli, The Fanatic," and Portnoy's Complaint -- Chapter Two: Spectres of Roth: The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost, and Zuckerman Unbound -- Chapter Three: Double-Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock -- Chapter Four: The American Berserk: Sabbath's Theater and American Pastoral -- Chapter Five: Playing it Any Way You Like: The Human Stain -- Chapter Six: Counterfactual Terror: The Plot Against America -- Conclusion: What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Also issued in print.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-336-21311-6
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-62356-294-5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781501304583
