Ebook: Borrowed voices: writing and racial ventriloquism in the Jewish American imagination
Author: Glaser Jennifer
- Tags: American literature, American literature--History and criticism--20th century, American literature--Jewish authors, American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, Culture in literature, Culture in literature--Criticism interpretation etc.--United States, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Intermarriage in literature, Jews in literature, Jews--Intellectual life, Jews--United States--Intellectual life, Race in literature, Criticism interpretation etc, American literature -- Jewish authors --
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- City: New Brunswick;New Jersey;United States
- Language: English
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In this provocative new study, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of late twentieth-century Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Considering works by everyone from Cynthia Ozick to Woody Allen to Michael Chabon, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.