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Our Decentralized Literature : Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers
author
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Chametzky, Jules.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870235400
print isbn13
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9780870235405
ebook isbn13
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9780585083254
language
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English
subject
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Judaism and literature--United States--History, Southern States--In literature, Jews in literature.
publication date
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1986
lcc
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PS153.J4C46 1986eb
ddc
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810/.9/8924
subject
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American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Judaism and literature--United States--History, Southern States--In literature, Jews in literature.
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Our Decentralized Literature
Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers
Jules Chametzky
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst, 1986
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Copyright 1986 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Linoterm Janson at The University of Massachusetts Press Printed by Cushing-Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chametzky, Jules. Our decentralized literature. Includes index. 1. American literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. American literatureSouthern States History and criticismAddresses, essays, lectures. 3. Jews in literatureAddresses, essays, lectures. 1. Title. PS153.J4C461986810'.9'892486-1259 ISBN 0-87023-527-3 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-87023-540-0 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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For Anne, Matthew, Robert, Peter
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
3
I. Controlling Language and Culture
One Our Decentralized Literature: The Significance of Regional, Ethnic, Racial, and Sexual Factors
21
Two The Assimilation of the American Jewish Writer: Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow
46
Three Immigrant Fiction as Cultural Mediation
58
II. History, Myth, and the Ethnic Question
Four History in I. B. Singer's Novels
71
Five Edward Dahlberg: The Jewish Orphan in America
78
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Six Elmer Rice, Liberation, and the Great Ethnic Question
88
III. The Southerner as All-American Writer
Seven Realism, Cultural Politics, and Language as Mediation in Mark Twain
109
Eight Thomas Wolfe and the Cult of Experience
125
Nine Styron's Sophie's Choice: Jews and Other Marginals
137
Index
147
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
All of the essays in this collection have been previously published. I am grateful to the various editors and publishers for permission to reprint them. In a few cases their titles are slightly different from the originals. My numerous scholarly and personal debts are evident in the texts and footnotes.
"Our Decentralized Literature: A Consideration of Regional, Ethnic, Racial, and Sexual Factors," Jahrbuch fr Amerikastudien 17 (Heidelberg, 1972): 5672.
"Notes on the Assimilation of the American-Jewish Writer: Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow," Jahrbuch fr Amerikastudien 9 (Heidelberg, 1964): 17380.
"Immigrant Fiction as Cultural Mediation," Modern Jewish Studies Annual 5 (Fall 1984): 1421.
"History in I. B. Singer's Novels," in Critical Views of Isaac B. Singer, ed. I. Malin (New York: New York University Press, 1969), pp. 16977.
"Edward Dahlberg, Early and Late," in Proletarian Writers of the Thirties, ed. David Madden (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968), pp. 6473.
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