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

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 Wo...

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Main Author: Glaser, Jennifer, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813577425
081357742X
9780813577418
0813577411

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