Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

by Adeena Karasick, Norman Finkelstein, Benjamin Friedlander

"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"
--Franz Kafka

Kafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular Jews: those disdainful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817355634
• ISBN13: 9780817355630
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 6.0"