Cover of Jewishness and masculinity from the modern to the postmodern

Book 2010

Jewishness and masculinity from the modern to the postmodern

Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Published
2010
  • Jews in literature
  • Masculinity in literature
  • Postmodernism (Literature)

Content: "The Jew" as homme/femme fatale: Jewish (art)ifice, Trilby, and Drefyus -- Emancipation to das Muskelj'den: Zionism, masculinity, and the liberated Jewish body -- The feminized Jewish pugilist: racial ambivalence and weak muscle-Jews -- Gendered-Jewishness in Ulysses: Bloom as semi-queer Jew -- From Klugman to Pipik: Philip Roth and postcolonial/postmodern old-new Jewish gender -- Coda.