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03420aam a2200409 i 4500 001 A5785EE4F2F211E49475ABD7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150505014724 008 140512t20152015nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014018766 020 $a 1623562961 (HB) 020 $a 9781623562960 (HB) 035 $a (OCoLC)879642574 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d NDD $d UKMGB $d ZCU $d CDX $d COA $d N15 $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CHVBK $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS3568.O855 $b Z57 2015 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 084 $a LIT004020 $a LIT004020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Basu, Ann, $e author. 245 10 $a States of Trial : $b manhood in Philip Roth's Post-War America / $c Ann Basu. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, $c 2015. 300 $a 189 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "This study of five towering Philip Roth novels - Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals upon the nation and American trial-based myths about wholesomeness and regeneration. Roth shows how the "stories of old" which moulded American self-making have produced disorderly and disruptive counter-stories, playing themselves out in Jewish men marked by spots and stains where their constitutional integrity has been infringed. Roth probes the nation's own constitutional testing points as he shatters the identities of characters such as fallen ace athlete Swede Levov and disgraced academic Coleman Silk. His books seek to strip away America's false innocence, demanding that historical accountability should replace myths of new beginnings. Creating arenas of trial for his American men where national discourses and narratives cross and clash, Roth's novels reveal that a culture equals its debates and allow us to see Americans and America as ongoing experiments, always being tested"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Philip Roth's Post-war Americans in a State of Trial -- 1. Turning Sentences Around: Trial Themes in The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound and The Anatomy Lesson -- 2. Before the Law: Operation Shylock: A Confession -- 3. Testing "Stories of Old" in Aerican Pastoral -- 4. Undoing the Bildungsroman: Cold War Trials in I Married A Communist -- 5. Spooking the American National Body in The Human Stain -- 6. The Plot Against America and the Trials of the American Constitution -- Nemeses: Reworking the Trial for Post-war America -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index. 600 10 $a Roth, Philip $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Masculinity in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Roth, Philip. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00044990 650 7 $a Masculinity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011040 600 17 $a Roth, Philip, $d 1933- $0 (DE-588)118803433 $2 gnd 650 7 $a MaÌnnlichkeit. $0 (DE-588)4372433-4 $2 gnd 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017023741.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A5785EE4F2F211E49475ABD7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search