The Golem in Jewish American Literature

The Golem in Jewish American Literature
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 0820463841
ISBN-13 : 9780820463841
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Book Synopsis The Golem in Jewish American Literature by : Nicola Morris

Download or read book The Golem in Jewish American Literature written by Nicola Morris and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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