Free Download Aaron Tillman, "Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film"
English | ISBN: 1498565026 | 2017 | 158 pages | EPUB | 494 KB
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture-language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans-Aaron Tillman asks how we portray identities and differences that seem to resist concrete definition. Over the course of Magical American Jew, Tillman examines this enigma-the indefinite yet undeniable difference that informs contemporary Jewish American identity-demonstrating how certain writers and filmmakers have deployed magical realist techniques to illustrate the enigmatic difference that Jewish Americans have felt and continue to feel.
