Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern

by Neil Davison

Book Overview

This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these authors, Davison demonstrates how religious-based prejudices as well as doctrinal Judaic concepts were sustained in the discourse of race and gender surrounding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415875862
• ISBN13: 9780415875868
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.1"