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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jewish American Literature"”.
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
… study of three immigrant themes in Jewish-American literature: transformation, freedom, and connection. It covers a number of twentieth century writers whose central concerns revolve around issues of assimilation. Chapter I gives a brief overview of the topic.</p><p>Chapter II …
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“To Make Myself for a Person”: The Bildungsroman in Modern Jewish-American Literature
… share many similarities: they both feature young Jewish protagonists who immigrate to America in search of the better life they believe America can provide. Though their novels have similar trajectories, each author answers the still relevant question of how immigrants might successfully …
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East Side Story: Jewish American Writing In New York City, 1898-1934
In my thesis, the category "Jewish American literature" pinpoints a historical and cultural moment specific to these immigrant writers and identifies a set of concerns about identity--religious, ethnic and national--stemming from their position within the space of the Lower East Side. Just as …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
… of this thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s guilt through fiction. …
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The makings and unmakings of Americans: Indians and immigrants in American literature and culture, 1880-1924
… that despite their coercion into the “making of Americans” discourses, New Immigrants and American Indians shared structurally connected roles in the drama of Americanization and assimilation. Recovering a genealogy of a combined cultural resistance to regimes of “making Americans” in a variety …
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Distant proximities: Whiteness and worldedness in contemporary Jewish literature
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms