A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction
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Description
Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.
Publication Date
1996
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
City
Athens
Keywords
American fiction, Jewish authors, history, criticism, Jews, storytelling, memory, literature
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature
Original Publication Information
University of Georgia Press
Recommended Citation
Aarons, Victoria. A Measure of Memory: Storytelling and Identity in American Jewish Fiction. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.