Telling the Little Secrets
eBook - PDF

Telling the Little Secrets

American Jewish Writing since the 1980s

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Telling the Little Secrets

American Jewish Writing since the 1980s

About this book

Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of "home" in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within "the little secrets" of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction: The New Wave
  4. Riddling Identity
  5. Writing the Pathos of Belatedness
  6. Voice and Mourning in the Aftermath
  7. Recalling “ Home” from Exile
  8. Portnoy’s Successors
  9. Becoming Rubies
  10. Midrash as Undertow
  11. Epilogue: Moving from the Mirror to the Window
  12. Notes
  13. Index