Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections

by David Brauner

In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333740351
• ISBN13: 9780333740354
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.9"