Identity Papers argues that contemporary Jewish American literature
revises our understanding of Jewishness and Jewish difference.
Moving beyond the reductive labeling of texts and authors as too
Jewish or not Jewish enough, and focusing instead on narratives
that portray Jewish regeneration through feminist Orthodoxy,
queerness, off-whiteness, and intermarriage, Helene Meyers resists
a lachrymose view of contemporary Jewish American life. She argues
that such gendered, sexed, and raced debates about Jewish identity
become opportunities rather than crises, signs of creative
potential rather than symptoms of assimilation and deracination.
Thus, feminist debates within Orthodoxy are allied to Jewish
continuity by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, and Tova Mirvis;
the geography of Jewish identity is racialized by Alfred Uhry, Tony
Kushner, and Philip Roth; and the works of Jyl Lynn Felman, Judith
Katz, Lev Raphael, and Michael Lowenthal queer the Jewish family as
they reveal homophobia to be an abomination. Even as Identity
Papers expands Jewish literary horizons and offers much-needed
alternatives to the culture wars between liberal and traditional
Jews, it argues that Jewish difference productively troubles
dominant narratives of feminist, queer, and whiteness studies.
Meyers demonstrates that the evolving Jewish American literary
renaissance is anything but provincial; rather, it is engaged with
categories of difference central to contemporary academic
discourses and our national life."
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