Burstein, Janet.

Telling the little secrets American Jewish writing since the 1980s / [electronic resource] : Janet Burstein. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006. - xv, 264 p. ; 24 cm.

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.


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American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
Judaism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States
Judaism in literature.
Jews in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.J4 / B868 2006eb

810.9/8924/0904