TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schreier,Benjamin
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Impossible Jew : : Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History / 
SN  - 9781479888436
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Roth, Philip.
KW  - Foer, Jonathan Safran,
KW  - Cahan, Abraham,
KW  - Roth, Philip
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - fast
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Litterature juive
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Juifs
KW  - Identite
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Introduction: The school of criticism I wouldn't be caught dead in: a polemic on theorizing the field -- 1. Toward a critical semitism: on not answering the Jewish question in literary studies -- 2. Against the dialectic of nation: Abraham Cahan and desire's spectral Jew -- 3. The negative desire of Jewish representation; or, why were the New York intellectuals Jewish? -- 4. Why Jews aren't normal: the unrepresentable future of Philip Roth's the counterlife -- 5. 9/11's stealthy Jews: Jonathan Safran Foer and the irrepresentation of identity; Open Access
N2  - He destroys in order to create. In a sweeping critique of the field, Benjamin Schreier resituates Jewish Studies in order to make room for a critical study of identity and identification. Displacing the assumption that Jewish Studies is necessarily the study of Jews, this book aims to break down the walls of the academic ghetto in which the study of Jewish American literature often seems to be contained: alienated from fields like comparative ethnicity studies, American studies, and multicultural studies; suffering from the unwillingness of Jewish Studies to accept critical literary studies as
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42387/
ER  -