Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Persisent Themes and Questions 1
4. 1 The Historical and Literary Foundations: Pre-1945 19
5. 2 Seminal Influences: Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska and Henry Roth 31
6. 3 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction I: Bellow, Malamud, Roth and Identity Crises 52
7. 4 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction II: Erica Jong, Grace Paley and Tillie Olson 73
8. 5 Explorations in Drama: from Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner 92
9. 6 Poetry across the Generations: Duality to Assimilation 111
10. 7 The Mediation of Jewishness in Cultural Texts: Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Paul Auster and Woody Allen 130
11. 8 Relocating Moralism in Jewish America: Past and Present in Chaim Potok and the later Saul Bellow 149
12. 9 New Directions across the Generations: From Philip Roth to Cynthia Ozick 167
13. Conclusion: A Renaissance or Revisionism? 184
14. Glossary of Yiddish Terms 197
15. Select Bibliography 199
16. Index 211