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Between 'Race' and Culture Bryan Cheyette

Between 'Race' and Culture par Bryan Cheyette

Between 'Race' and Culture Bryan Cheyette


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This collection of essays examines various representations of the Jew in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period.

Between 'Race' and Culture Résumé

Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature Bryan Cheyette

This collection of essays examines various representations of the Jew in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, Trollope, James, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf, and Orwell, as well as such marginal figures as Dorothy Richardson, Stevie Smith, and Michael Gold. The contributors are all well-known Anglo-American literary, cultural, or feminist critics; some have written extensively on literary racism or antisemitism, others are working in this area for the first time.

The collection does not impose a schema or new orthodoxy, but instead encourages a plurality of approaches to a difficult and always contentious issue that has been demarcated into broadly defined politically correct and liberal humanist positions. Liberal humanism asserts that the ameliorating western canon has, by definition, nothing to do with racism or antisemitism. Political correctness wishes to exclude from the academy any literary text deemed to reinforce oppressive stereotypes. This volume adopts neither position, arguing instead that these two supposedly antagonistic approaches are, in fact, mirror-images of each other.

Between 'Race' and Culture Avis

In cutting-edge critiques of race and gender, each as a value of 'otherness,' the contributors bring to light refreshingly new and insightful understandings of familiar works. As a result, readers may not read any of these works the same way again. Even the canonically enforced distinction between the two national literatures begins to break down in the face of these contributors' exciting new work.-James E. Young, University of Massachusetts

À propos de Bryan Cheyette

Bryan Cheyette is Lecturer in English Literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He is the author of Constructions of the Jew in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945.

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Contributors; 1. Introduction: unanswered questions Bryan Cheyette; 2. Romanticism and/or antisemitism William Galperin; 3. Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews Sander K. Gilman; 4. Seeing double: Jews in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot Murray Baumgarten; 5. Henry James and the discourses of antisemitism Jonathan Freedman; 6. The imaginary Jew; T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound Maud Ellmann; 7. A nightmare of history: Ireland's Jews and Joyce's Ulysses Marilyn Reizbaum; 8. Dorothy Richardson and the Jew Jacqueline Rose; 9. The milk of our mother's kindness has ceased to flow: Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith and the representation of the Jew Phyllis Lassner; 10. The protection of masculinity: Jews as projective pawns in the texts of William Gerhardi and George Orwell Andrea Freud Loewenstein; 11. Some uses for Jewish ambivalence: Abraham Cahan and Michael Gold Eric Homberger; Notes; Index.

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Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature Bryan Cheyette
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Stanford University Press
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