Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Telling the little secrets [electronic resource] : American Jewish writing since the 1980s / Janet Burstein.

By: Burstein, Janet.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006Description: xv, 264 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism | Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life | Judaism in literature | Jews in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/8924/0904 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-248) and index.

Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile : revisiting the past -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving on.

TSLHHL

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.