The Golem in Jewish American Literature : Risks and Responsibilities in the Fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers
ISBN-10
0820463841
ISBN-13
9780820463841
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 23rd, 2007
Print length
147 Pages
Weight
434 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 24.50 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Society & culture: general
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The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon. Nicola Morris sees this clay humanoid, created in Jewish legend for practical and spiritual purposes, as a metaphor for power and powerlessness and for the complexities and responsibilities surrounding the act of creation. Further, she employs the golem figure as a device to examine the problematic Holocaust representation in the second generation, the uncertain boundaries between fiction and historiography, the ethics of intertextuality and the writer’s responsibility to literary, folkloric and oral sources. Morris concludes with an impassioned plea for the responsible uses of power, technology and language.
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