Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvBrett Ashley Kaplan,USA) Kaplan, Brett Ashley (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-23
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt442 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor216
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781623562946

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AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Jewish Anxiety: “Goodbye Columbus,” “Eli, The Fanatic,” and Portnoy’s ComplaintChapter Two: Spectres of Roth: The Ghost Writer, Exit Ghost, and Zuckerman UnboundChapter Three: Double-Consciousness and the Jewish Heart of Darkness: The Counterlife and Operation Shylock Chapter Four: The American Berserk: Sabbath’s Theater and American Pastoral Chapter Five: Playing it Any Way You Like: The Human StainChapter Six: Counterfactual Terror: The Plot Against AmericaConclusion: What we talk about when we talk about Anne FrankBibliographyIndex

In Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth, Brett Kaplan offers a timely reassessment of the notion of ‘Jewish anxiety.’ Roth’s fiction, Kaplan brilliantly argues, exposes an essential contradiction in contemporary Jewish moral life, often displaced into his representations of race, gender, and sexuality. By moving beyond the conventional account of how Roth returns to the mid-century past—how the Jews Roth writes about are driven by fear that anti-Semitism may again victimize Jews as the millions were in the Holocaust—Kaplan engages Roth in ongoing history. She uncovers in his fiction an antithetical anxiety among Jews who confront how Jewish actions during the Israel-Palestine conflict may victimize others. Kaplan’s exceptional historical insight enables her to discern in the politics of Roth’s novels the manifold ways in which the contemporary Jew may experience moral ambivalence. Kaplan’s book will change the way that readers think about Roth and the Jews.