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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature

Author: Hana Wirth-Nesher; Michael P Kramer
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Hana Wirth-Nesher; Michael P Kramer
ISBN: 0521792932 9780521792936 0521796997 9780521796996
OCLC Number: 50737096
Description: xvi, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Jewish American literatures in the making / Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer --
Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history / Michael P. Kramer --
Imagining Judaism in America / Susannah Heschel --
Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants / Priscilla Wald --
Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination / David G. Roskies --
Hebrew literature in America / Alan Mintz --
Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing / Hana Wirth-Nesher --
Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture / Donald Weber --
Jewish American poetry / Maeera Y. Shreiber --
Jewish American writers on the left / Alan Wald --
Jewish American Renaissance / Ruth R. Wisse --
Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination / Emily Miller Budick --
Jewish American women writers and the race question / Susan Gubar --
On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics / Shira Wolosky --
Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing / Tresa Grauer.
Responsibility: edited by Hana Wirth-Nesher, Michael P. Kramer.
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