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Author:

Hoffman, Warren.

Title:

The passing game : queering Jewish American culture / Warren Hoffman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Syracuse University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xi, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Yiddish literature--United States--History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Passing (Identity) in literature.
Theater, Yiddish--United States--History--20th century.
Jews--United States--Identity.
Queer theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-190) and index.

Contents:

Lost in translation, or, The epistemology of Sholem Asch's Got fun nekome -- The rise (and fall) of David Levinsky : performing Jewish American heterosexuality -- Oy, is this a girl!/? : Molly Picon and cross-dressed passing -- Coming out of the "closet" at midcentury : Jo Sinclair's Wasteland -- Butching it up : male hysteria and heterosexual performance in Portnoy's complaint -- Androgynous tales : gender ambiguity in the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Series:

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

ISBN:

0815632029 (alk. paper)
9780815632023 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)282950964

LCCN:

2008050494

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)