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  1. Borrowed voices
    writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities.... more

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    In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Considering works by everyone from Cynthia Ozick to Woody Allen to Michael Chabon, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement

     

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  2. Borrowed voices
    writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey

    In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities.... more

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    In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Considering works by everyone from Cynthia Ozick to Woody Allen to Michael Chabon, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement Introduction -- The politics and poetics of speaking the other -- The perils of loving in America -- What we talk about when we talk about the Holocaust -- The Jew in the canon and culture wars -- Race, indigeneity, and the topography of diaspora in contemporary Jewish American literature -- Coda

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 081357742X; 9780813577425
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Jews; Jews in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Race in literature; Intermarriage in literature; Culture in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 198 Seiten)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index