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"My Place in Judaism": Geography, Ethnicity, and Sexuality on Sarah Schulman's Lower East Side
Ist Teil von
Shofar (West Lafayette, Ind.), 2008-12, Vol.26 (2), p.81-96
Ort / Verlag
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Novelist Sarah Schulman's characters inhabit southern Manhattans lower East Side and the East Village, drawing on real and imagined histories of Jewish and gay activism and creativity in their search for physical and cultural space in which they can experiment with sexuality, art, and politics. Variant sexuality and minority ethnicity inform and amplify each other, as metaphors drawn from Jewish culture find their way into descriptions of queer life, and gay references function as comments on Jewish existence. Even while Schulman's characters move through streets rich with references to both Jewish and gay communities, those references increasingly nod to the past, as Jews move out of "the city" to the suburbs and to other cities, and gentrification threatens the economic viability of lesbians and gay men living on capitalisms margins. Schulman's fictional "tours" of gay and Jewish spaces of lower New York both memorialize and construct these intertwined communities.