Telling the little secrets American Je wish writing since the 1980's - Burstein, Janet; American Council of Learned Societies (Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)
Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belat edness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the afterma th : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile -- Portn oy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : lo oking back and moving forward.
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Keywords: American literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Judaism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life; Judaism in literature; Jews in literature