000			01235cam a2200157ua 4500
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082			_a810 _b WAD/J
100	0		_aWade, Stephen
245	1	0	_aJewish American literature since 1945: an introduction
260			_aChicago _bFitzroy Dearborn _c1999
300			_a215p.
500			_aIncludes bibliographies and index.
520			_aJewish 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.
650	0		_aAmerican Literature
942			_cBK
999			_c12113 _d12113