Artikel
Beyond assimilation: difference and reconfiguration in the works of Irena Klepfisz, Jyl Lynn Felman, and Rebecca Goldstein
Verfasst von:
Schamp, Jutta
in:
Berlin ; Wien [u.a.]:
1999
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229 - 243 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Schamp, Jutta |
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| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Whereas representatives of the Jewish-American canon such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sual Bellow, Bernard Malamud and Philip Roth were primarily interested in the immigrant experience, strangement, assimilation, the Shoah and the Diaspora, the emerging young generation of Jewish-American writers and artists redefine their Jewishness and celebrate their differences within the paradigms of race, class, gender, sexual and religious orientation. Under the influence of deconstructive theory, many Jews regard their identity as fluid, yet heterogeneous, interactive rather than essentialist and homogeneous. Especially Jewish women whose voices have been silenced for a very long time have embarked on questions of self-representation, agency beyond assimilation, and affiliation by choice. The lesbian poet essayist Irena Klepfisz (*1941) is a central figure in anticipating the comprehensive theoretical debates of the 199os about hybridity and a nomadic consciousness for the Jewish context. the lesbian writer Jyl Lynn Felman (*1954) reinscribes traditional autobiography in her psychological novel "Cravings" by reappropriating traditional Jewish rituas and making food the touchstone of her personal development. In "The Mind-Body Problem" Rebecca Goldstein (*1950) finds a way out of the Cartesian dichotomy intellect - body by relying on Judaic values such as "menschlichkayt" (Mutual respect and the acknowledgment of man's mixed moral nature) and "tikkun olam" (repair of the world) | |
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