Bernard Malamud's fiction and the rise of ethnic literary studies

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-129
Author(s):  
Pirjo Ahokas
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Bernard Malamud ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
Jewish American Fiction ◽  
American Author ◽  
Post War ◽  
False Set

The increasing visibility of a number of previously marginalized literary cultures is one of the most challenging developments in post-war American fiction. My dissertation deals with the novels of Bernard Malamud (1914–1986), a contemporary Jewish-American author, whose work is linked with this phenomenon as well as other significant trends in the recent literature of the United States. It is customary to think that ethnic authors write within the older realist or naturalist traditions. The new scholarship, however, claims that literary forms are not organically connected with ethnic groups. Jewish-American fiction offers much evidence that ethnicity and modernism form a false set of opposites.

scholarly journals On Booze: a representation of The Roaring Twenties in the great Gatsby

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-164
Author(s):  
Jenison Alisson dos Santos ◽  
Caio Antônio de Medeiros Nóbrega Nunes Gomes ◽  
Elisa Mariana de Medeiros Nóbrega
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
American Author ◽  
Post War

Fitzgerald is considered by many to be the spokesperson of the 1920’s post-World War I, offering his readers a distinctive look into the Golden Age of the U.S.A.. This article focuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece The great Gatsby (2001) and its representation and criticism of the historical context in which author and novel are inserted: the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties of the United States of America. For this purpose, our critical framework is based on Bloom’s (2006) and Heise’s (2001) studies on the subject, targeting a pertinent dialogue with Fitzgerald’ s work. As a result of our articulation between the critical framework and the corpus, we were able to recognize how the American author managed to express in his work a keen perception of the social conventions and the morals of the Jazz Age, of both the overt (the parties and the ostentation) and the covert aspects (the emptiness of that society and the unspoken post-war dread) of his time.

Book reviews

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-70
Author(s):  
Paul Levine ◽  
Margit Frank ◽  
Juhani Ihanus ◽  
Tapani Harviainen ◽  
Lauri Karvonen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Bernard Malamud ◽  
Bruno Bettelheim ◽  
American Author ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

Forging a new self: the Adamic protagonist and the emergence of a Jewish-American author as revealed through the novels of Bernard Malamud (Pirjo Ahokas, 1991) is reviewed by Paul Levine.EN TREUER KETZER. Studien zu Manès Sperbers Romantrilogie "We eine Träne im Ozean" (Claudia Sternberg, 1991, diss.) is reviewed by Margit Frank.Vilna on the Seine. Jewish intellectuals in France since 1968 (Judith Friedlander, 1990) is reviewed by Juhani Ihanus.Suomen juutalaisten aseveljeys (Hannu Rautakallio, 1989) is reviewed by Tapani Harviainen.Karaites and dejudaization. A historical review of an endogenous and exogenous paradigm (Roman Freund, 1991) is reviewed by Tapani Harviainen.Hakkorset och Wasakärven. En studie av nationalsocialismen i Sverige 1924–1950 (Heléne Lööw, 1990) and Führerns trogna följeslagare. Den finländska nazismen 1932–1944 (Henrik Ekberg, 1991) are reviewed by Lauri Karvonen.Juden in der Soziologie. Eine öffentliche Vortragsreihe an der Universität Konstantz 1989 (ed. Erhard R. Wiehn, 1989) is reviewed by Susan Sundback.Bibeln: tillägg till gamla testamentet: de apokryfa eller deuterokanoniska skrifterna (1986) and God och nyttig läsning: om gamla testamentets apokryfer (P. Block, J. Blomqvist, G-B Sundström, C. Åsberg, 1988) are reviewed by Nils Martola.Tradition og nybrud: jødedommen i hellenistisk tid (eds. Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Niels Lemche, 1990) is reviewed by Nils Martola.Short notice by Nils Martola.Jerusalem ja Rooma (Pauli Huuhtanen, 1989) is reviewed by Nils Martola.Minnen och tankar (Bruno Bettelheim, 1991) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Jødiske høytider i evangelisk lys (Dag Bughaug, 1991) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Antisemitismen. En historisk skildring i ord och bild (Hans Jansen, Janrense Boonstra, Joke Kniesmeyer, 1991) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Kyrkan och det judiska folket (Svenska kyrkans mission, 1991) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Mellan ord och tystnad. Essäer (Mona Vincent, 1991) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman. 

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