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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gilman, Sander L

Titel

The Fanatic: Philip Roth and Hanif Kureishi Confront Success1

Ist Teil von

• Comparative literature, 2006-04, Vol.58 (2), p.153

Ort / Verlag

Durham: Duke University Press, NC & IL

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In some cases it marked leaving the world of a Jewish religious identity for that of a Jewish ethnic identity, as in Samson Raphaelson's short story and play Day of Atonement, as well as in Alan Crosland's 1927 film The Jazz Singer, made from that play (see Rosenberg; Saposnik; Alexander). Goodbye, Columbus was an immediate "hit" in that it seemed to capture the conflicts of American Jewry (and other "ethnic" groups) in the era of good feeling that was the age of Eisenhower.2 Roth, who claimed to be most influenced by his reading of Franz Kafka, presents a world in which transformation is by definition a failure of will and identity.