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Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry and drama, the author offers a readable guide to the achievements of a key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature.Key FeaturesA student guide to major writers in post-war American literatureA chapter on each of the 5 main writersCovers theoretical aspects -- the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction -- in an easily accessible wayOffers background material to situate the work of the writers

American literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism --- Cahan, Abraham --- Criticism and interpretation --- Yezierska, Anzia --- Roth, Henry --- Bellow, Saul --- Jong, Erica --- Paley, Grace --- Olsen, Tillie --- Miller, Arthur --- Kushner, Tony --- Ozick, Cynthia --- Fiedler, Leslie Aaron --- Auster, Paul --- Allen, Woody --- Potok, Chaim, 1929 --- Roth, Philip --- 20th century --- Jews --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life.