Haunted in the New World

Informationen zum Autor Donald Weber is Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. His essays on Jewish American literature and popular culture have appeared in many publications, including The Forward, and he is author of Rhetoric and History in Revolutionary New England. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Klappentext Setting an array of figures and works in creative dialogue, Haunted in the New World offers a genealogy of those core emotions-shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget-that organized much of 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture and transformed American culture at the same time. Zusammenfassung Maps the affective landscape of Jewish American culture. This book offers a genealogy of the emotions - shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget - that organized 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Adjusting to America 1. Outsider in the Old World, Greenhorn in the New: Christopher Newman and David Levinsky 2. Gastronomic Nostalgia: Anzia Yezierska 3. The Claims of Descent: Immigrant Cinema 4. Haunted in the New World: Henry Roth 5. To Make "a Jew": Projecting Antisemitism in Post-War America 6. Memory and Repression: Goldberg Variations 7. The "Jewish Opera": Saul Bellow and Other Jewish Sons Epilogue: Nostalgia and 1950s Popular Culture Notes Bibliography Index

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Setting an array of figures and works in creative dialogue, Haunted in the New World offers a genealogy of those core emotions-shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget-that organized much of 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture and transformed American culture at the same time.

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Maps the affective landscape of Jewish American culture. This book offers a genealogy of the emotions - shame and self-hatred, nostalgic longing and the impulse to forget - that organized 20th-century Jewish American expressive culture.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Adjusting to America

1. Outsider in the Old World, Greenhorn in the New: Christopher Newman and David Levinsky
2. Gastronomic Nostalgia: Anzia Yezierska
3. The Claims of Descent: Immigrant Cinema
4. Haunted in the New World: Henry Roth
5. To Make "a Jew": Projecting Antisemitism in Post-War America
6. Memory and Repression: Goldberg Variations
7. The "Jewish Opera": Saul Bellow and Other Jewish Sons
   Epilogue: Nostalgia and 1950s Popular Culture
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index