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Post-War Jewish Fiction

Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. David Brauner

    1. University of Reading, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Explaining Themselves: Ambivalent Representations of Jewishness in Post-War British-and American-Jewish Fiction

    • David Brauner
    Pages 1-37

  3. The Gentile Who Mistook Himself for a Jew

    • David Brauner
    Pages 38-73

  4. Nature Anxiety, Homosocial Desire and (Sub)urban Paranoia: the Jewish Anti-Pastoral

    • David Brauner
    Pages 74-112

  5. Breaking the Silence: Jewish Women Writing the War and the War After

    • David Brauner
    Pages 113-153

  6. Philip Roth and Clive Sinclair: Portraits of the Artist as a Jew(ish Other)

    • David Brauner
    Pages 154-184

  7. Afterword

    • David Brauner
    Pages 185-188

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 189-222
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In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those by lesser-known British writers such as Frederic Raphael, Jonathan Wilson, Howard Jacobson and Clive Sinclair, certain common preoccupations emerge: Gentiles who mistake themselves for Jews; Jewish hostility towards Nature; writing (and not writing) about the Holocaust, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Reading, UK

    David Brauner

About the author

DAVID BRAUNER is Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Reading, Berkshire. He has published articles on Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Jane Smiley and a number of other contemporary fiction writers.

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