Jewish in America - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472068806 ISBN 13 : 9780472068807

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2004

Synopsis

"Jewish culture in America is creating a genuinely new archive---a powerful admixture of texts old and new, Jewish and gentile, sacred and secular, on which our writers and critics offer creative commentary and to which they make compelling response. Shaped in the American crucible of race and ethnicity, pushed and pulled by the American traditions of ahistorical and individualist thinking, empowered by a powerful sacramental and hermeneutic tradition yet challenged by that tradition's stunning variety of inflections, impelled to furious response by world crisis, these writers testify not only to the anguishing and joyous complexity of being Jewish in America, but the creative energies such multiplicity generates." -From the Introduction This rare and original work of cultural studies offers uncommon and engaging perspectives-as well as provocative and humorous insights-on what it means to be Jewish in America. Jewish in America features poetry, art, essays, and stories from an impressive and respected list of contributors, including among others Stephen Greenblatt, Richard Kostelanetz, Jacqueline Osherow, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Pomerantz, Nancy Reisman, Grace Schulman, Louis Simpson, Alisa Solomon, and Stephen J. Whitfield. In addition to pieces by some of the country's leading writers, the book features a stunning gallery of original photographs that transport the viewer from the crowded Coney Island beaches of the 1940s to the landscapes of Oaxaca, Mexico in the 1990s.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sara Blair is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.

Jonathan Freedman is Professor of American Culture and English at the University of Michigan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472068806
• ISBN 13: 9780472068807
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Blair Sara B., Freedman Jonathan E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible