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By Jennifer Glaser

ISBN-10: 081357739X

ISBN-13: 9780813577395

ISBN-10: 0813577403

ISBN-13: 9780813577401

In the many years following global struggle II, many American Jews sought to downplay their distinction, as a way of assimilating into center the USA. but an important minority, together with many fashionable Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic distinction, utilizing it to sign in dissent with the established order and act as spokespeople for non-white America.

In this provocative publication, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism grew to become a trademark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their very own ethnicity enabled them to talk for different minorities. instead of easily condemning this racial ventriloquism as a kind of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic mind's eye, Borrowed Voices deals a nuanced research of the method, judiciously assessing either its barriers and its strength merits. Glaser considers how the perform of racial ventriloquism has replaced through the years, analyzing the books of many famous writers, together with Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and so on.

Bringing Jewish stories into dialog with serious race conception, Glaser additionally opens up a discussion among Jewish-American literature and other kinds of media, together with motion pictures, magazines, and image novels. in addition, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction will help us comprehend the bigger anxieties approximately ethnic id, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged within the wake of the civil rights movement.

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Within the a long time following international conflict II, many American Jews sought to downplay their distinction, as a method of assimilating into center the United States. but an important minority, together with many well-known Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic distinction, utilizing it to check in dissent with the established order and act as spokespeople for non-white the US.

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