11 Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Preface: Jews Have Legs ix
6. Introduction: Modern Jewish Fiction 1
7. Part I. American Jewish Fiction
8. 1. Pioneering Women Writers and the De-ghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction 19
9. 2. Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow 33
10. 3. The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction 43
11. 4. ‘Are you kidding me?’ Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield and Bruce Jay Friedman 53
12. 5. American Jewish Life Writing, Illness and the Ethics of Innovation 64
13. 6. From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women’s Writing 76
14. 7. Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Émigré Jewish Writers from the USSR 90
15. 8. History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories 105
16. 9. Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner’s ‘A Contract with God’ 119
17. 10. The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction 138
18. 11 Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers 149
19. 12. Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren’t 161
20. Part II: British Jewish Fiction
21. 13. The Postwar ‘New Wave’ of British Jewish Writing 175
22. 14. Jewish Émigré and Refugee Writers in Britain 188
23. 15. Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons 199
24. 16. Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature 210
25. 17. Life Writing and the East End 221
26. 18. ‘Almost too good to be true’: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon 237
27. 19. The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon 253
28. 20. British Jewish Holocaust Fiction 267
29. 21. Reading Matters: ‘Marginal’ British Jewish Writers 279
30. Part III: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction
31. 22. Jewish Writing in Canada 291
32. 23. South African Jewish Writers 303
33. 24. Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia 318
34. 25. Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey 332
35. 26. ‘Migrant’ Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora 346
36. 27. Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War 355
37. 28. Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie 367
38. List of Contributors 378
39. Works Cited 383
40. Index 415