Freedman traces the twists and turns taken by these various relationships in a number of imaginative arenas: the white-black crossover between jazz and klezmer and its unexpected consequences in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain"; the relationship between Jewishness and queer identity in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"; contemporary fictions about crypto-Jews in Cuba and the Mexican-American borderland; the connection between Jews and Christian apocalyptic narratives, especially the best-selling "Left Behind" series; the centuries-old cross-referencing of Jewish and Asian American identities; the stories of "new immigrants" spun by contemporary writers like Bharathi Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Gary Shteyngart; and the revisionary relation of these authors to classic Jewish American immigrant narratives by the likes of Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. By interrogating the fraught andmultidimensional uses to which Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness have been put in shaping the nature and properties of other categories of identity and experience, Freedman offers a richer understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America and of the ethnoracial complexities facing the United States in the twenty-first century.
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Freedman traces the twists and turns taken by these various relationships in a number of imaginative arenas: the white-black crossover between jazz and klezmer and its unexpected consequences in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain"; the relationship between Jewishness and queer identity in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America"; contemporary fictions about crypto-Jews in Cuba and the Mexican-American borderland; the connection between Jews and Christian apocalyptic narratives, especially the best-selling "Left Behind" series; the centuries-old cross-referencing of Jewish and Asian American identities; the stories of "new immigrants" spun by contemporary writers like Bharathi Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Gary Shteyngart; and the revisionary relation of these authors to classic Jewish American immigrant narratives by the likes of Henry Roth, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow. By interrogating the fraught andmultidimensional uses to which Jews, Judaism, and Jewishness have been put in shaping the nature and properties of other categories of identity and experience, Freedman offers a richer understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America and of the ethnoracial complexities facing the United States in the twenty-first century.
Imprint | Columbia University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 2008 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2008 |
Authors | Jonathan Freedman |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Trade binding |
Pages | 408 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-14278-6 |
Barcode | 9780231142786 |
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LSN | 0-231-14278-1 |