Jewish American and Holocaust Literature : Representation in the Postmodern World

by Berger, Alan L.; Cronin, Gloria L.

• ISBN13: 9780791462096
• ISBN10: 0791462099
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-15
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
Alan L. Berger
Gloria L. Cronin
PART ONE: HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
1. Hidden Children: The Literature of Hiding	13	(18)
Alan L. Berger
2. An Eye on a Scrap of the World: Ida Fink's Hidden Witnesses	31	(12)
Ellen S. Fine
3. Jerzy Kosinski: Did He or Didn't He?	43	(14)
Harry James Cargas
4. By the Light of Darkness: Six Major European Writers Who Experienced the Holocaust	57	(20)
Hugh Nissenson
5. Memory and Collective Identity: Narrative Strategies Against Forgetting in Contemporary Literary Responses to the Holocaust	77	(16)
Gerhard Bach
6. The Rendition of Memory in Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl	93	(10)
Marianne M. Friedrich
7. A Speck of Dust Blown by the Wind Across Land and Desert: Images of the Holocaust in Lanzmann, Singer, and Appelfeld	103	(12)
Gila Safran Naveh
8. Writing to Break the Frozen Seas Within: The Power of Fiction in the Writings of Norma Rosen and Rebecca Goldstein	115	(10)
Susan E. Nowak
9. Art and Atrocity in a Post-9/11 World	125
Thane Rosenbaum
PART TWO: JEWISH AMERICAN LITERATURE
10. Africanity and the Collapse of American Culture in the Novels of Saul Bellow	139	(18)
Gloria L. Cronin
11. The Jewish Journey of Saul Bellow: From Secular Satirist to Spiritual Seeker	157	(10)
Sarah Blacher Cohen
12. Philip Roth and Jewish American Literature at the Millennium	167	(12)
Bonnie Lyons
13. Malamud and Ozick: Kindred Neshamas	179	(6)
Evelyn Avery
14. Myth and Addiction in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple	185	(16)
Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist
15. Evolving Paradigms of Jewish Women in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Fiction: Through a Male Lens/Through a Female Lens	201	(22)
S. Lillian Kremer
16. After the Melting Pot: Jewish Women Writers and the Man in the Wrong Clothes	223	(12)
Miriyarn Glazer
17. Restorying Jewish Mothers	235	(8)
Janet Burstein
Contributors	243	(6)
Index	249