Between ‘Race’ and Culture: Representations of ‘the Jew’ in English and American LiteratureStanford University Press, 1996 - 222 páginas This collection of essays examines various representations of the Jew in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, Trollope, James, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf, and Orwell, as well as such marginal figures as Dorothy Richardson, Stevie Smith, and Michael Gold. The contributors are all well-known Anglo-American literary, cultural, or feminist critics; some have written extensively on literary racism or antisemitism, others are working in this area for the first time. The collection does not impose a schema or new orthodoxy, but instead encourages a plurality of approaches to a difficult and always contentious issue that has been demarcated into broadly defined politically correct and liberal humanist positions. Liberal humanism asserts that the ameliorating western canon has, by definition, nothing to do with racism or antisemitism. Political correctness wishes to exclude from the academy any literary text deemed to reinforce oppressive stereotypes. This volume adopts neither position, arguing instead that these two supposedly antagonistic approaches are, in fact, mirror-images of each other. |
Contenido
Romanticism andor Antisemitism | 16 |
Jews in the Fiction of F Scott | 44 |
Henry James and the Discourses of Antisemitism | 62 |
T S Eliot and Ezra Pound | 84 |
Irelands Jews | 102 |
Dorothy Richardson and the Jew 114 | 114 |
The Milk of Our Mothers Kindness Has Ceased | 129 |
Jews as Projective | 145 |
Notes | 183 |
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