Salvage Poetics

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814343198
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvage Poetics written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081434898X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israeli Salvage Poetics written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the recuperation of eastern European culture in Israeli Hebrew-language literature.

Author : Author Sheila E Jelen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814350812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Author : John Lowney
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297337
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History, Memory, and the Literary Left written by John Lowney and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era’s impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left’s challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history. The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closely---Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppen---are not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s. In so doing he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold War’s repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253070759
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a City written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiction of Nobel Laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon is the foundation of the array of scholarly essays as seen through the career of Alan Mintz, visionary scholar and professor of Jewish literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Mintz introduced Agnon's posthumously published Ir Umeloah (A City in Its Fullness)—a series of linked stories set in the 17th century and focused on Agnon's hometown, Buczacz, a town in what is currently western Ukraine—to an English reading audience, and argued that Agnon's unique treatment of Buczacz in A City in its Fullness, navigating the sometimes tenuous boundary of the modernist and the mythical, was a full-throated, self-conscious literary response to the Holocaust. This volume is an extension of a memorial dedicated to Mintz's memory (who died suddenly in 2017) which combines selections of Alan's work from the beginning, middle and end of his career, with autobiographical tributes from older and younger scholars alike. The essays dealing with Agnon and Buczacz remember the career of Alan Mintz and his contribution to the world of Jewish studies and within the world of Jewish communal life.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666907456
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testimonial Montage written by Sheila E. Jelen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who participated in the Cracow ghetto resistance. The author teases out the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice of this family of testimonies.

Author : Cynthia Dewi Oka
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810136309
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salvage written by Cynthia Dewi Oka and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka’s evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet’s life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that encompasses multiple social, political, and cultural contexts—leading readers to Bali, Indonesia, to the Pacific Northwest, and to South Jersey and Philadelphia. Throughout it insistently interrogates what it means to reach for our humanity through the guises of nation, race, and gender. Oka’s language transports us through the many bodies of fluid poetics that inhabit our migrating senses and permeate across generations into a personal diaspora. Salvage invites us to be without borders.

Author : Maryanne L. Leone
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487548338
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Human written by Maryanne L. Leone and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling sixteenth-century Spain to the present day, Beyond Human aims to decentre the human and acknowledge the material historicity of more-than-human nature. The book explores key questions relating to ecological equity, justice, and responsibility within and beyond Spain in the Anthropocene. Examining relations between Iberian cultural practices, historical developments, and ecological processes, Maryanne L. Leone, Shanna Lino, and the contributors to this volume reveal the structures that uphold and dismantle the non-human–human dichotomy and nature-culture divide. The book critiques works from the Golden Age to the twenty-first century in a wide range of genres, including comedia, royal treatises, agricultural reports, paintings, satirical essays, horror fiction and film, young adult and speculative literature, poetry, graphic novels, and television series. The authors contend that Spanish cultural studies must expose the material historicity that entangles today’s ecological crises and ecosocial injustices with previous, future, and contemporary entities. The book argues that this will require the simultaneous decentring of the human and of the Anthropocene as an ecocritical framework. By standardizing ecosocial analysis and widening avenues for ecopedagogical approaches, Beyond Human participates in the ecocentric transformation of Hispanic cultural studies.

Author : Marie Huber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004323791
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles and the Poetics of Time written by Marie Huber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Memories of an Impossible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles and the Poetics of Time Marie Huber traces the quest for a modern language of poetry through different figurations of temporality in the works of one of Iran’s foremost poets.

Author : Eliyana R. Adler
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814341675
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Old Country written by Eliyana R. Adler and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest until suddenly reawakened by the 1967 Six-Day War and its implications for world Jewry. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that previous assumptions about the early silence of American Jewry with regard to the Holocaust were exaggerated. And while historians have expanded their borders and definitions to encompass the postwar decades, scholars from other disciplines have been paying increasing attention to the unique literary, photographic, artistic, dramatic, political, and other cultural creations of this period and the ways in which they hearken back to not only the Holocaust itself but also to images of prewar Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades brings together scholars of literature, art, history, ethnography, and related fields to examine how the American Jewish community in the post-Holocaust era was shaped by its encounter with literary relics, living refugees, and other cultural productions which grew out of an encounter with Eastern European Jewish life from the pre-Holocaust era. In particular, editors Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen are interested in three different narratives and their occasional intersections. The first narrative is the real, hands-on interaction between American Jews and European Jewish refugees and how the two groups influenced one another. Second were the imaginative reconstructions of a wartime or prewar Jewish world to meet the needs of a postwar American Jewish audience. Third is the narrative in which the Holocaust was mobilized to justify postwar political and philanthropic activism. Reconstructing the Old Country will contribute to the growing scholarly conversation about the postwar years in a variety of fields. Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.