Details
ISBN: 9781911325642
Published: December 5, 2017
Publisher: Hitchcock Annual
Trim: 5.80 x 8.90 Inches
Pages: 204
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Lindsay Hallam
By Lindsay Hallam
Devil's Advocates
About the Book
This book offers insights into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation Americans who don't worry about assimilation as did their parents' generations? If so, how does the writing of recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union fit into the picture? Contra Irving Howe's prediction in 1977, Jewish American literature did not fade after immigration. It always finds new paths, drawing from the scope of Jewish life in America.