| 0626.3014 ספרות יהודית-אמריקנית | |
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| פרופ חנה וירט נשר | סמינר ב.א. |
| This course will examine the development of Jewish-American literature within the context of the American literary tradition, of the history of the Jews in the United States, and of the problematics of identity (ethnicity, religion, race, and class). We will be focusing on various aspects of memory and textuality, first in relation to the experience of immigration and then with regard to post-holocaust consciousness, home and exile, and multiculturalism in America. Among issues that will be studied are canon, genre, voice and speech representation, translation and translatability, intertextuality, and the ethics and poetics of post-holocaust literature.
The readings consist of short stories, essays, novels, and autobiographical writing. The book-length works available at the Dionon will be: Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology (a few of these will also be on reserve at Weiner) The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature Mary Antin, The Promised Land Henry Roth, Call It Sleep Cynthia Ozick The Shawl Art Spiegelman, Maus A few stories will also be photocopied and made available in the department: Bernard Malamud, “Lady of the Lake,” “The Jewbird” Philip Roth, “Eli, the Fanatic” Grace Paley, “The Loudest Voice” And stories by Rebecca Goldstein, Allegra Goodman, Lev Raphael, Leon Kobrin, Lamed Shapiro, among others. Theoretical readings will be drawn from the following: Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity Walter Benn Michaels, Our America Murray Baumgarten, City Scriptures Lawrence Langer, The Literature of the Holocaust Alvin Rosenfeld, A Double Dying Horace Kallen, “Democracy versus the Melting Pot” Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Identities Hana Wirth-Nesher, What is Jewish Literature? Students will be expected to attend regularly, present a referat in class, prepare a seminar proposal and annotated bibliography, and submit a seminar paper. | |
| מועדי הבחינות: | |
| מועד א' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |
| מועד ב' של סמסטר א' יתקיים ביום חסר בשעה 9:00 | |