Jewish-American Writing Since 1945

by Stephen Wade

Book Overview

Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853312266
• ISBN13: 9781853312267
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"