TY - BOOK ID - 1440930 TI - The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature AU - Wirth-Nesher, Hana AU - Kramer, Michael P PY - 2003 SN - 0521792932 0521796997 0511119135 9786610158416 0511998759 0511071574 0511306334 1280158417 0511203209 0511063113 1139816454 9780521796996 9780521792936 9780511998751 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Jewish religion KW - Jews KW - Jews in literature KW - Judaism in literature KW - Jewish authors KW - History and criticism KW - Intellectual life KW - Jews in literature. KW - Judaism and literature KW - Judaism in literature. KW - Amerikaanse letterkunde KW - Joden KW - Joods-Amerikaanse letterkunde KW - Joodse godsdienst KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Joodse auteurs KW - geschiedenis en kritiek KW - Verenigde Staten KW - geschiedenis KW - letterkunde KW - geschiedenis en kritiek. KW - geschiedenis. KW - Joden in de literatuur KW - Jodendom in de literatuur KW - Judaisme dans la littérature KW - Juifs dans la littérature KW - United States KW - American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism KW - Jews - United States - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1440930 AB - For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike. ER -