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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writings since the 1980s
Ist Teil von
Shofar, 2007, Vol.25 (4), p.173-176
Ort / Verlag
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
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The term "new wave," however, which Burstein applies to Jewish American literature after 1980, unfairly ignores the nuanced differences of the past three decades of Jewish American writing - subtleties that have prompted some to break a century of Jewish American writing into four segments: immigrant, assimilationist, writing that returns to Jewish ritual and loss, and more recently writing that explores the experiences of new Jewish immigrants to America. In her vision of new Jewish American writing second-generation "survivors" "stand closer to that center of radical destruction-like the crater left by a bomb-in which our dead, and much of the culture they created, are lost" (p. 7); Philip Roth's work exposes the "fault lines along which individual character breaks down" (p. 15); a sense of self becomes "a grave in which the past lies buried" (p. 43); what is left after atrocity are "shining lethal shards" (p. 75); and Jewish losses become a"mirrored chamber in which contemporary experience identifies its precursors" (p. 177).