The Impossible Jew : : Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History / / Benjamin Schreier.
He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Toward a Critical Semitism
- 2. Against the Dialectic of Nation
- 3. The Negative Desire of Jewish Representation; or, Why Were the New York Intellectuals Jewish?
- 4. Why Jews Aren't Normal
- 5. 9/11's Stealthy Jews
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author