Race, Rights, and Recognition : : Jewish American Literature since 1969 / / Dean Franco.
In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-base...
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Franco, Dean, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Race, Rights, and Recognition : Jewish American Literature since 1969 / Dean Franco. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism -- Part I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion -- 1. Portnoy's Complaint: It's about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) -- 2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter -- 3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Part II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility -- 4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal's Her First American -- 5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- 6. Globalization's Complaint: Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture -- Epilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism. While these writers explore the same themes of group-based rights and recognition that preoccupy Latino, African American, and Native American writers, they are generally suspicious of group identities and are more likely to adopt postmodern distancing techniques than to presume to speak for "their people." Ranging from Philip Roth's scandalous 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint to Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan in 2006, the literature Franco examines in this book is at once critical of and deeply invested in the problems of race and the rise of multicultural philosophies and policies in America.Franco argues that from the formative years of multiculturalism (1965-1975), Jewish writers probed the ethics and not just the politics of civil rights and cultural recognition; this perspective arose from a stance of keen awareness of the limits and possibilities of consensus-based civil and human rights. Contemporary Jewish writers are now responding to global problems of cultural conflict and pluralism and thinking through the challenges and responsibilities of cosmopolitanism. Indeed, if the United States is now correctly-if cautiously-identifying itself as a post-ethnic nation, it may be said that Jewish writing has been well ahead of the curve in imagining what a post-ethnic future might look like and in critiquing the social conventions of race and ethnicity. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) American literature Jewish authors History and criticism. Jews in literature. Jews Intellectual life United States. Jews United States Intellectual life. Judaism and literature History 20th century United States. Judaism and literature History 21st century United States. Judaism and literature United States History 20th century. Judaism and literature United States History 21st century. Judaism in literature United States. Judaism in literature. American Studies. Discrimination & Race Relations. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801450877 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464010 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801464010 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801464010/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Politics and Ethics of Jewish American Literature and Criticism -- Part I: Pluralism, Race, and Religion -- 1. Portnoy's Complaint: It's about Race, Not Sex (Even the Sex Is about Race) -- 2. Re-Reading Cynthia Ozick: Pluralism, Postmodernism, and the Multicultural Encounter -- 3. The New, New Pluralism: Religion, Community, and Secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Part II: Recognition, Rights, and Responsibility -- 4. Recognition and Effacement in Lore Segal's Her First American -- 5. Responsibility Unveiled: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- 6. Globalization's Complaint: Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the Culture of Culture -- Epilogue: Less Absurdistan, More Boyle Heights -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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