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Classifications Library of Congress PS E95 B74 , PS E95 B7 The Physical Object Pagination xviii, p. Community Reviews 0 Feedback? Loading Related Books. Braziller in English August 12, May 15, October 23, Edited by Lisa. July 31, History. An edition of Bread givers This edition was published in by Persea Books in New York.

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Toggle navigation. Bread Givers. Get Books. A young Jewish girl from New York's Lower East Side rebels against the tyranny and chauvinism of her immigrant father, determined to assert her freedom and independence. At ten years old,. It provides a new critical framework for understanding not only ethnic literature, but also the underlying psychological, historical, social, and cultural forces. An American Writer, Richard Rodriguez. Defining the Race, , Judith Stein.

Comping for Count Basie, Albert Murray. Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture -- in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman -- led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews. Schwartz, Alfred Kazin, and Irving Howe, Levinson concludes that their interaction with American culture led them to improvise new and meaningful ways of being Jewish.

In contrast to the often expressed view that the diaspora experience leads to assimilation, Exiles on Main Street traces an arc of return to Jewish identification and describes a vital and creative Jewish American literary culture. Ethnic Passages Author : Thomas J. He argues that they are manifestations of a rebirth paradigm and draw on all the literary tools employed by other genres.

Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc. This provocative work shows that a body of texts written by ethnic writers during this period poses a challenge to conventional notions of America and American modernism. By engaging with modernist literary studies from the perspectives of minority discourse, postcolonial studies, and postmodern theory, Rita Keresztesi questions the validity of modernism's claim to the neutrality of culture.

She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America. With the changing racial, ethnic, and cultural makeup of the nation during the interwar era, literary modernism also changed its form and content.