Telling the Little Secrets : American Jewish Writing Since the 1980s

Janet Handler Burstein

ISBN 10: 0299212408 / ISBN 13: 9780299212407

Editore: University Of Wisconsin Press Nov 2005, 2005

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Neuware - Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of ''home'' in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within ''the little secrets'' of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.

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• Titolo: Telling the Little Secrets : American Jewish Writing Since the 1980s
• Editore: University Of Wisconsin Press Nov 2005
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0299212408
• ISBN 13: 9780299212407
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 160 A x 21 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 21 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 503 grammi

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Riassunto

Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of “home” in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within “the little secrets” of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.

Informazioni sull?autore

Janet Handler Burstein is professor of English at Drew University and chair of the Modern Literature section of the Association for Jewish Studies. She is the author of Writing Mothers, Writing Daughters: Tracing the Maternal in Stories by American Jewish Women