Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals - Couverture rigide

Grinberg, Ronnie A.

 
9780691193090: Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals
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ISBN 10 : 0691193096 ISBN 13 : 9780691193090
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York's combative intellectual scene

In the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included women and non-Jews. Yet all of its members embraced a secular Jewish machismo that became a defining characteristic of the contemporary experience. Write like a Man examines how the New York intellectuals shared a uniquely American conception of Jewish masculinity that prized verbal confrontation, polemical aggression, and an unflinching style of argumentation.

Ronnie Grinberg paints illuminating portraits of figures such as Norman Mailer, Hannah Arendt, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Mary McCarthy, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, and Irving Howe. She describes how their construction of Jewish masculinity helped to propel the American Jew from outsider to insider even as they clashed over its meaning in a deeply anxious project of self-definition. Along the way, Grinberg sheds light on their fraught encounters with the most contentious issues and ideas of the day, from student radicalism and the civil rights movement to feminism, Freudianism, and neoconservatism.

A spellbinding chronicle of mid-century America, Write like a Man shows how a combative and intellectually grounded vision of Jewish manhood contributed to the masculinization of intellectual life and shaped some of the most important political and cultural debates of the postwar era.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ronnie A. Grinberg is associate professor of history and a core faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691193096
ISBN 13 
9780691193090
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
384
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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