Cover Image

Humour and identity in Jewish American fiction : no laughing matter /

This book contributes to the interdisciplinary take on Jewish American literature through the exploration of a connection between humour and identity. Initially inspired by a love for Jewish humor and literature, the author selects works by three contemporary Jewish American writers that may appear...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buráková, Zuzana (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024.
Subjects:	Jewish fiction > United States > History and criticism. American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism. Humor in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Similar Items

American Jewish fiction /
by: Lambert, Joshua N.
Published: (2009)

Jewish-American fiction, 1917-1987 /
by: Pinsker, Sanford
Published: (1992)

The Jewish American novel /
by: Codde, Philippe
Published: (2007)

Leaving other people alone : diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in contemporary Jewish fiction /
by: Kreuter, Aaron
Published: (2023)

Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 /
by: Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Published: (1997)

Contemporary Jewish American writers and the multicultural dilemma : the return of the exiled /
by: Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Published: (2000)

Studies in American Jewish literature.
Published: (1981)

Israel through the Jewish-American imagination : a survey of Jewish-American literature on Israel, 1928-1995 /
by: Furman, Andrew, 1968-
Published: (1997)

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature /
Published: (2001)

Teaching Jewish American literature /
Published: (2020)

A measure of memory : storytelling and identity in American Jewish fiction /
by: Aarons, Victoria
Published: (1996)

The Jewish writer in America ; assimilation and the crisis of identity.
by: Guttmann, Allen
Published: (1971)

Handbook of American-Jewish literature : an analytical guide to topics, themes, and sources /
Published: (1988)

Crisis and covenant : the Holocaust in American Jewish fiction /
by: Berger, Alan L., 1939-
Published: (1985)

Contemporary American-Jewish literature ; critical essays.
by: Malin, Irving
Published: (1973)

Members of the tribe : native America in the Jewish imagination /
by: Rubinstein, Rachel, 1972-
Published: (2010)

Members of the tribe : native America in the Jewish imagination /
by: Rubinstein, Rachel, 1972-
Published: (2010)

Soviet-born : the afterlives of migration in Jewish American fiction /
by: Krasuska, Karolina
Published: (2024)

Connections and collisions : identities in contemporary Jewish-American women's writing /
Published: (2005)

American talmud : the cultural work of Jewish American fiction /
by: Cappell, Ezra, 1971-
Published: (2007)

American talmud : the cultural work of Jewish American fiction /
by: Cappell, Ezra, 1971-
Published: (2007)

Studies in American Jewish literature.
Published: (1981)

The rise and fall of Jewish American literature : ethnic studies and the challenge of identity /
by: Schreier, Benjamin
Published: (2020)

Modern Jewish women writers in America /
Published: (2007)

Traditions in American literature ; a study of Jewish characters and authors /
by: Mersand, Joseph E., 1907-1981
Published: (1968)

Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture /
by: Levinson, Julian
Published: (2008)

Identity papers : contemporary narratives of American Jewishness /
by: Meyers, Helene
Published: (2011)

Identity papers : contemporary narratives of American Jewishness /
by: Meyers, Helene
Published: (2011)

Ethnic American literature : comparing Chicano, Jewish, and African American writing /
by: Franco, Dean J., 1968-
Published: (2006)

Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature /
Published: (2001)

Modern Jewish studies annual.

Daughters of valor : contemporary Jewish American women writers /
Published: (1997)

Apocalyptic messianism and contemporary Jewish-American poetry /
by: Gitenstein, R. Barbara, 1948-
Published: (1986)

Crisis and covenant : the Holocaust in American Jewish fiction /
by: Berger, Alan L., 1939-
Published: (1985)

Crossing cultures : creating identity in Chinese and Jewish American literature /
by: Oster, Judith
Published: (2003)

Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture /
Published: (2010)

Radical poetics and secular Jewish culture /
Published: (2010)

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American literature /
Published: (2003)

Writing their nations : the tradition of nineteenth-century American Jewish women writers /
by: Lichtenstein, Diane Marilyn
Published: (1992)

Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative /
by: Royal, Derek Parker, 1963-
Published: (2011)