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The Impossible Jew - Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History (Paperback)
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The Impossible Jew - Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History (Paperback)
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He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the
field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make
room for a critical study of identity and identification.
Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the
study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the
academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature
often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative
ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies;
suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept
critical literary studies as a legitimate part of its project; and
so often refusing itself to engage in self-critique. The Impossible
Jew interrogates how the concept of identity is critically put to
work by identity-based literary study. Through readings of key
authors from across the canon of Jewish American literature and
culture-including Abraham Cahan, the New York Intellectuals, Philip
Roth, and Jonathan Safran Foer-Benjamin Schreier shows how texts
resist the historicist expectation that self-evident Jewish
populations are represented in and recoverable from them. Through
ornate, scabrous, funny polemics, Schreier draws the lines of
relation between Jewish American literary study and American
studies, multiethnic studies, critical theory, and Jewish Studies
formations. He maintains that a Jewish Studies beyond ethnicity is
essential for a viable future of Jewish literary study.
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