Chapter 5. Portnoy’s Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–1969)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction Sally’s Orgasm 1
5. Part One the first wave: the mouse-mountains of modernity (1905–1934)
6. Introduction 19
7. Chapter 1 Disraeli’s Page performative jewishness in the public sphere 25
8. Chapter 2 Kafka’s Ape literary modernism, jewish animality, and the crisis of the new cosmopolitanism 45
9. Chapter 3 Abie’s Irish Rose immigrant couplings, utopian multiculturalism, and the early american film industry 69
10. Part Two the second wave: erotic schlemiels of the counterculture (1967–1980)
11. Introduction 97
12. Chapter 4 Benjamin’s Cross israel, new hollywood, and the jewish transgressive (1947–1967) 101
13. Chapter 5. Portnoy’s Monkey: Postwar Literature, Stand-Up Comedy, and the Emergence of the Carnal Jew (1955–1969) 123
14. Chapter 6 Katie’s Typewriter hollywood romance, historical rewrite, and the subversive sexuality of the counterculture (1967–1980) 149
15. Part Three the third wave: global fockers at the millennium (1993–2007)
16. Introduction 183
17. Chapter 7 Spiegelman’s Frog coded jewish metamorph and christian witnessing (1978–1992) 189
18. Chapter 8 Seinfeld’s Mailman global television and the wandering sitcom (1993–2000) 215
19. Conclusion Plato’s Retweet 261
20. Notes 267
21. Selected Bibliography 327
22. Index 333