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Author:

Glaser, Jennifer, 1978- author.

Title:

Borrowed voices : writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination / Jennifer Glaser.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xi, 198 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Jews--United States--Intellectual life.
Jews in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Race in literature.
Intermarriage in literature.
Culture in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The politics and poetics of speaking the other -- The perils of loving in America -- What we talk about when we talk about the Holocaust -- The Jew in the canon and culture wars -- Race, indigeneity, and the topography of diaspora -- Coda.

ISBN:

0813577403 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813577401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081357739X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813577395 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)919252553

LCCN:

2015024446

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)