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100 1 $aAarons, Victoria.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84190331
245 12 $aA measure of memory :$bstorytelling and identity in American Jewish fiction /$cVictoria Aarons.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axii, 218 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. I.$tIntroduction: The Stories They Tell --$gCh. II.$tThe Ethical Fiction of Delmore Schwartz: Identity, Generation, and Culture --$gCh. III.$tTelling History: Generations of Voices in American Jewish Fiction --$gCh. IV.$t"Believe me, there are Jews everywhere" - Accidental Connections in the Most Unlikely Places: A Reading of Bernard Malamud --$gCh. V.$tMargins of Hope: Grace Paley's Language of Memory --$gCh. VI.$tEpilogue: New Voices, Old Stories.
520 $aA Measure of Memory explores the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in twentieth-century American Jewish fiction. Focusing primarily on the short story and on major figures such as Sholom Aleichem, Delmore Schwartz, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, J. D.
520 8 $aSalinger, and Art Spiegelman, Victoria Aarons examines the characteristically self-reflexive narratives of Jewish literature, ranging from Hebrew scripture, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Yiddish literature to the postmodernism of Grace Paley and the feminism of Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Francine Prose, and Leslea Newman. Aarons demonstrates how, in telling their personal histories, characters in American Jewish fiction bear witness to the survival - if only in memory - of a community.
520 8 $aTheir stories speak to a shared defeat and achievement and thus to a shared but evolving cultural ethos.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101038
650 0 $aJews$zUnited States$xIdentity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106098
650 0 $aStorytelling$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112295
650 0 $aMemory in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083503
650 0 $aJews in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070511
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