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02586aam a2200409 i 4500 001 1DDD9EDA78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 200212t20202020pau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020004257 020 $a 0812252578 020 $a 9780812252576 035 $a (OCoLC)1141021762 040 $a PU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d QGK $d YDX $d J9U $d QGK $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.J4 $b S373 2020 082 00 $a 810.9/8924073 $2 23 100 1 $a Schreier, Benjamin, $e author. 245 14 $a The rise and fall of Jewish American literature : $b ethnic studies and the challenge of identity / $c Benjamin Schreier. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 228 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Jewish culture and contexts 520 $a "The dominant event of Jewish American literary history is "emergence" or "breakthrough"-the irruption in the 1950s of Jewish American writers like Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley into the heart of the American cultural scene. ... Breakthrough needs to be approached primarily as an event in Jewish American historiography, not Jewish American history. The innovation of breakthrough was not simply to link, inevitably and unimpeachably, the Jewish authors and Jewish texts of Jewish American literature but to reorient thinking about literary texts written by Jews in America around authors as representatives of Jewish American people, experience, and culture; Jewish American literary study would professionalize over the following decades as scholarly focus shifted from the object of literary representation to its subject, from Jews as a community written about to Jews as a population writing" -- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Jewish literature $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Jews $x Identity. 650 7 $a American literature $x Jewish authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807197 650 7 $a Jewish literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00982834 650 7 $a Jews $x Identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983278 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Jewish culture and contexts. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015045.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1DDD9EDA78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search