Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Myers, D. G.

Titel

Michael Chabon's Imaginary Jews

Ist Teil von

• The Sewanee review, 2008-09, Vol.116 (4), p.572-588

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Myers talks about Michael Chabon, a Jewish novelist, born in May 1963 in Washington DC. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for 2001, Chabon was arrayed among the masters of modern Jewish literature. Myers states that Chabon's mid career decision to reinvent himself as a Jewish novelist was no fluke where his earlier novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, proved to fully squeeze himself into the modern tradition of multilingual code-switching, intramural debate, and communal self-questioning--a literary tradition that starts with the nineteenth-century Yiddish writers.