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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Ozick"”.
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"So what's the joke?" : locating Jewish-American female authorship
… female writers, Grace Paley, Cynthia Ozick and Erica Jong, and locates their writing in the context of their quasi-double-marginalization--the yoking of their Jewishness and femaleness. Their texts illustrate their reaction to a history of patriarchal Judaism that relegates femaleness …
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A CRAVING FOR HISTORY: IMMIGRANT THEMES IN JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE
… well as fictional works by Mark Helprin, Cynthia Ozick, and Hugh Nissenson, works in which both memory and imagination are enlisted in an attempt to recover "the useful past." Chapter VII is a close reading of Johanna Kaplan's O My America! (1980). This novel focuses on an immigrant son who has …
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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”
… community. In Chapter Two, I focus on Cynthia Ozick’s short story “The Shawl,” which is a brief but powerful fictional Holocaust narrative. Ozick’s text examines the ways in which the Holocaust destroys the bonds of family and community, and it grapples with the question of responsibility and …
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The Collapse of Time, Home, and Relationships: A Critical Approach to the Holocaust Short Story
In my dissertation I investigate the various horror scenes of the Holocaust seen through the eyes of the short story. Clearly, the genre of the short story is distinctly different from a novel or a novella. The latter two genres allow the author to engage in extensive descriptions of characters and …