Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics

by Maeera Shreiber

This book begins with a silence. While Jewish American fiction has long been recognized as a fit subject for critical inquiry, Jewish American poetry has largely been overlooked. Recently, a few books have started to redress this silence, focusing on some specific Jewish American poets. However, even as these studies begin to identify specific individuals as "Jewish American poets," the field must be theorized so that we might understand this fascinating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734291
• ISBN13: 9780804734295
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.1"