Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930
Struggles for Recognition
Seiten
2018
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6389-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6389-5 (ISBN)
This book offers a comparative study of the Jewish response to identity structures in Eastern Europe and the United States from 1890 to 1930 in narratives by immigrant writers from the Pale of Settlement and Romania.
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early twentieth century under the guise of commitment to the specificity of individual experiences. The book sheds light on how these texts suggest an alternative ethical agency which encompasses both mainstream and minority practices, and which capitalizes on the need of keeping alive individual responsibility and vulnerability as the only means to actually create a democratic culture. In that, this book opens up novel areas of inquiry and research for both the academic world and the social and cultural fields, facilitating the rediscovery of long-neglected Eastern European Jewish American writers and the rethinking of the more familiar authors addressed.
The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890–1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America’s norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early twentieth century under the guise of commitment to the specificity of individual experiences. The book sheds light on how these texts suggest an alternative ethical agency which encompasses both mainstream and minority practices, and which capitalizes on the need of keeping alive individual responsibility and vulnerability as the only means to actually create a democratic culture. In that, this book opens up novel areas of inquiry and research for both the academic world and the social and cultural fields, facilitating the rediscovery of long-neglected Eastern European Jewish American writers and the rethinking of the more familiar authors addressed.
Dana Mihăilescu is associate professor of English/American studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
Introduction
Part I: Power Fields, Struggles for Recognition, and the Birth of Jewish American Contingent Identity
1. Preliminary Considerations
2. Eastern European Traditions in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Narratives
3. American Traditions between Temptations and Traps: Towards a Contingent Identity
Part II: Jewishness, Responsibility, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth Century America: Writing an Ethics out of Contingency
4. Stances of Ethical Agency out of Contingency
5. Human Socialities between Struggles for Recognition and Ethical Responsibility
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-6389-9 / 1498563899 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-6389-5 / 9781498563895 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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