Borrowed Voices : Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination /
Glaser, Jennifer
Borrowed Voices : Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination / Jennifer Glaser. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America. In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Rather than simply condemning this racial ventriloquism as a form of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic imagination, Borrowed Voices offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits. Glaser considers how the practice of racial ventriloquism has changed over time, examining the books of many well-known writers, including Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and many others. Bringing Jewish studies into conversation with critical race theory, Glaser also opens up a dialogue between Jewish-American literature and other forms of media, including films, magazines, and graphic novels. Moreover, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813577401 9780813577425
10.36019/9780813577425 doi
2015024446
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Culture in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Intermarriage in literature.
Jews in literature.
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS153.J4 / G53 2016 PS153.J4 / G53 2016
810.9/8924
Borrowed Voices : Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination / Jennifer Glaser. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America. In this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Rather than simply condemning this racial ventriloquism as a form of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic imagination, Borrowed Voices offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits. Glaser considers how the practice of racial ventriloquism has changed over time, examining the books of many well-known writers, including Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and many others. Bringing Jewish studies into conversation with critical race theory, Glaser also opens up a dialogue between Jewish-American literature and other forms of media, including films, magazines, and graphic novels. Moreover, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780813577401 9780813577425
10.36019/9780813577425 doi
2015024446
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Culture in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Intermarriage in literature.
Jews in literature.
Jews--Intellectual life.--United States
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS153.J4 / G53 2016 PS153.J4 / G53 2016
810.9/8924