New directions in Jewish American and Holocaust literatures : reading and teaching /
edited by Victoria Aarons and Holli Levitsky.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Black milk: a Holocaust metaphor / The American Voices of hidden child survivors: coming of age out of time and place / Reimagining history: Joe Kupert's graphic novel Yossel: April 19, 1943 / Alternate Jewish history: Philip Roth's The Plot Against America and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union / Reading the shema: Jewish literature as world literature / The "Story without an ending": art, midrash, and history in Dara Horn's The World to Come / Midrash and social justice / The midrashic legacy / Anne Frank, figuration, and the ethical imperative / Nathan Englander's "Anne Frank" and the future of Jewish America / Narrating the past in a different language: teaching the Holocaust through third generation fiction / A complicated curriculum: teaching Holocaust Empathy and distance to non-traditional students / Teaching Jewish American literature in a Spanish context / Teaching William Styron's Sophie's Choice: understanding the Holocaust / "A novel that dare not speak its name": biography and the Jewish-American writer / Eric J. Sundquist -- Phyllis Lassner -- Victoria Aarons -- Andrew M. Gordon -- Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Sandor Goodhart -- Sol Neely -- Monica Osborne -- Aimee Pozorski -- Hilene Flanzbaum -- Jessica Lang -- Jeffrey Demsky and N. Ann Rider -- Gustavo Sánchez Canales -- Zygmunt Mazur -- Judie Newman.
"What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving further away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. Contributors address such genres as biography, the graphic novel, alternate history, midrash, poetry, and third-generation and hidden-child Holocaust narratives. Both canonical and contemporary authors are covered, including Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Anne Frank, Dara Horn, Joe Kupert, Philip Roth, and William Styron"--
9781438473208
American literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.