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Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination - Softcover

Glaser, Jennifer

 
9780813577395: Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination
Softcover
ISBN 10: 081357739X ISBN 13: 9780813577395
Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America. 
 
In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Rather than simply condemning this racial ventriloquism as a form of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic imagination, Borrowed Voices offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits.  Glaser considers how the practice of racial ventriloquism has changed over time, examining the books of many well-known writers, including Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and many others.  
 
Bringing Jewish studies into conversation with critical race theory, Glaser also opens up a dialogue between Jewish-American literature and other forms of media, including films, magazines, and graphic novels. Moreover, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JENNIFER GLASER is an assistant professor of English and comparative literature and an affiliate faculty member in Judaic studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.  

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago behalf of Rutgers Univ Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
081357739X
ISBN 13 
9780813577395
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
214
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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