A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory: Volume 27 (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History) - Softcover

Ravvin, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773516654 ISBN 13: 9780773516656

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.

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About the Author

Norman Ravvin, chair of the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, is a fiction and non-fiction writer and editor. His books include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory. Sherry Simon is the author of numerous books, including

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773516654
• ISBN 13: 9780773516656
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208