Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers as well as placesg their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, postcolonial writing, and critical theory.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references : p. [177]-187
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54098924
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773566842 0773516654
- LCCN
- PR120.J48
- LCCN Item number
- R39 1997eb
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- CaOONL
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- 1 electronic text (x, 191 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200597 (CaBNVSL)slc00200597 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)696031342 (CaOOCEL)400925
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- Illustrations 13
- Introduction: This World and Others 20
- PART ONE: WHAT SORT OF HOME IS THE PAST? 24
- Forethought: Building a House of Words 26
- 1 Eli Mandel's Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies 28
- 2 Writing around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers 39
- 3 Taking the Victims' Side: Mordecai Richler's Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's Horseman 50
- PART TWO: STRANGE PRESENCES 66
- Forethought: Facing Up to the Past 68
- 4 Strange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy 70
- 5 Philip Roth's Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank 81
- 6 Ghost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life 102
- PART THREE: CONFRONTING APOCALYPSE 116
- Forethought: On Refusing to End 118
- 7 Apocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust 120
- 8 An End to Endings: Saul Bellow's Anti-Apocalyptic Novel 141
- PART FOUR: THE COLLABORATOR 150
- Forethought 152
- 9 Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy 154
- Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition 173
- Notes 182
- Bibliography 194
- Index 206
- A 206
- B 206
- C 206
- D 206
- E 206
- F 206
- G 207
- H 207
- J 207
- K 207
- L 207
- M 207
- N 207
- O 207
- P 207
- R 207
- S 207
- T 207
- W 207
- Y 208
