TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wade, Stephen
TI  - Jewish American literature since 1945: an introduction 
SN  - 157958196X
U1  - 810 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Fitzroy Dearborn
KW  - American Literature
N1  - Includes bibliographies and index
N2  - Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. The author "offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. The theoretical underpinnings of the literature -- including the postmodern, the master narrative and metafiction -- are also introduced in an accessible form. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, Cunthia Ozick, Phillip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry, drama and belles-lettres, the author offers a comprehensive and readable survey of the achievements of an important group of writers in twentieth-century American literature
ER  -