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Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890 - 1930

Struggles for Recognition
  • ISBN-13: 9781498563895
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Dana Mihailescu
  • Price: AUD $292.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2018
  • Format: Hardback 272 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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The compelling argument of Eastern European Jewish American Narratives, 1890-1930: Struggles for Recognition is that narratives of Eastern European Jewish Americans are important discourses offering a response to America's norms of assimilation, rationalized progress, and control in the early twentieth century under the guise of commitment to the specificity of individual experiences. The book sheds light on how these texts suggest an alternative ethical agency which encompasses both mainstream and minority practices, and which capitalizes on the need of keeping alive individual responsibility and vulnerability as the only means to actually create a democratic culture. In that, this book opens up novel areas of inquiry and research for both the academic world and the social and cultural fields, facilitating the rediscovery of long-neglected Eastern European Jewish American writers and the rethinking of the more familiar authors addressed.
Introduction Part I: Power Fields, Struggles for Recognition, and the Birth of Jewish American Contingent Identity 1. Preliminary Considerations 2. Eastern European Traditions in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Narratives 3. American Traditions between Temptations and Traps: Towards a Contingent Identity Part II: Jewishness, Responsibility, and Vulnerability in Early Twentieth Century America: Writing an Ethics out of Contingency 4. Stances of Ethical Agency out of Contingency 5. Human Socialities between Struggles for Recognition and Ethical Responsibility Conclusion
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