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“Haim Afen Range”: The Jewish Indian and the Redface Western
Ist Teil von
Melus, 2009-09, Vol.34 (3), p.15-42
Ort / Verlag
USA: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay looks at the figure of the Jewish Native American, focusing specifically on how Jewish performers and writers (from Fanny Brice to Bernard Malamud) created a viable American Jewish identity by identifying with, parodying, and distancing themselves from the imagined figure of the Native American. Unlike blackface performance, however, Jewish redface did not seek to efface Jewish difference altogether, but rather to insist upon it in a different form. Through both the choice of the indigenous figure and the unique manner of impersonation, Jewish performers and writers transformed racial difference into ethnic difference and used the latter position to stake a claim upon American identity.