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Sounds of a New Generation

On Contemporary Jewish-American Literature
Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2017
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9783837639865 (ISBN)

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Sounds of a New Generation - Deborah Wallrabenstein
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Curious about their own Jewishness: This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of young Jewish American writers.


This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation Americans who don't worry about assimilation as their parents' generation did? If so, how does the writing of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union fit into the picture? Unlike Irving Howe predicted in 1977, Jewish-American literature did not fade after immigration. It always finds new paths, drawing from the vast scope of Jewish life in America.

Deborah Wallrabenstein completed her dissertation project at the department of Jewish studies at the University of Basel. She has studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Massachusetts. Currently she is Deputy Head of Communications at the University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland.

»The book will be of use to anyone planning to research or teach the field of contemporary Jewish writing and who might wish to sample some of what the rich world that Jewish Americans have created over the last three decades has to offer.«

David Hadar, Amerikastudien, 64/2 (2019) 20200714

»The book will be of use to anyone planning to research or teach the field of contemporary Jewish writing and who might wish to sample some of what the rich world that Jewish Americans have created over the last three decades has to offer.«

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Lettre
Verlagsort Bielefeld
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 225 mm
Gewicht 324 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte America • American Studies • Amerikanische Literatur • Einwanderung / Immigration • General Literature Studies • Immigration • Jewish American Culture • Jewish American Literature • Jewish Immigration • Jewish Studies • Judaism • Judentum, Literatur • Literary Studies • Literature • Russian Jewish American
ISBN-13 9783837639865 / 9783837639865
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