Holocaust impiety in Jewish American literature : : memory, identity, (post) postmodern / / by Joost Krijnen.
The Holocaust is often said to be unrepresentable. Yet since the 1990s, a new generation of Jewish American writers have been returning to this history again and again, insisting on engaging with it in highly playful, comic, and “impious” ways. Focusing on the fiction of Michael Chabon, Jonathan Saf...
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| Superior document: | Postmodern Studies, Volume 53 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern studies ;
Volume 53. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Ever After Auschwitz: Holocaust Piety, Impiety, and Jewish American Fiction
- Historical Consciousness and the Americanization of the Holocaust
- The Dynamic of Distance: The Memory of the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier … Clay
- Jewish American Identity and the Holocaust
- Inventing Jewish Worlds: Identity, History, and the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, The Ministry of Special Cases, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
- Cultivating the Desert: Pragmatist Reconfigurations of Postmodernism
- Post-Postmodern “Entertainment”: The Holocaust and Renewalism in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier … Clay, Everything Is Illuminated, The History of Love, and Great House
- Afterword: An American Story
- Bibliography
- Index.