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Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel
In Europe, American Jews helped to destroy the tyranny of the Nazis, while the Nazis' anti-Semitic reign of terror was becoming the antithesis of American foreign policy: these Jewish soldiers were creating the self-conception of postwar America, in the months it took Eisenhower to drive his armies from the beaches of Normandy into the heart of Germany. Crucial as the Jewish story was within the overall narrative of the war, the template through which Americans saw World War II was always more political than literary: the primary source was radio and television and lived experience. Spielberg moved from a Jewish narrative of the war, Schindler's List (1993), to a \"national\" film about the war, Saving Private Ryan (1998), a film in which European Jews were integral to the Nazis' war and a film in which a non-ethnic American military effort captures the war's significance. The release of Schindler's List coincided with the construction of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
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The TransAtlantic reconsidered : the Atlantic world in crisis
Is the Atlantic World in a state of crisis? At a time when many political observers perceive indeed a crisis in transatlantic relations, critical evaluation of past narratives and frameworks in Transatlantic Relations and Atlantic History alike become crucial. This volume provides an academic foundation to critically assess the Atlantic World and to rethink transatlantic relations in a transnational and global perspective. The TransAtlantic Reconsidered brings together leading experts such as Harvard historians Charles S. Maier and Bernard Bailyn and former ERC scientific board member Nicholas Canny. All the scholars represented in this volume have helped to shape, re-shape, and challenge the narrative(s) of the Atlantic World and can thus (re-)evaluate its conceptual basis in view of historiographical developments and contemporary challenges.
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The Conservative Turn
Kimmage tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.
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Evil empire : a reckoning with power
\"\"All history,\" writes Maximillian Alvarez in his contribution, \"is the history of empire--a bid for control of that greatest expanse of territory, the past.\" Evil Empire confronts these histories head-on, exploring the motivations, consequences, and surprising resiliency of empire and its narratives. Contributors grapple with the economic, technological, racial, and rhetorical elements of U.S. power and show how the effects are far-reaching and, in many ways, self-defeating. Drawing on a range of disciplines--from political science to science fiction--our authors approach the theme with imagination and urgency, animated by the desire to strengthen the fight for a better future.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Newark Revisited: A Philip Roth for the Twenty-First Century
Events can occasion the rediscovery or rethinking of an existing body of literature—the Nixon presidency, for example, that made Roth think he was living in Kafka's America (see his 1974 essay \"Our Castle\"); or the reappearance of Moby-Dick in the 1930s after decades of callous neglect, just in time for Captain Ahab to accompany the fascist dictators leading their respective Pequods into the abyss. [...]Roth's sense of himself as a civic writer and his sense of his novels as civic in nature and effect bears directly on the fractures and divisions of the Trump era. Had he read these books, he would not have sympathized with the politics of their author, which would be difficult at any rate to discern from the novels themselves; and by no means was Roth writing these books in hopes that a wealthy man's son from Queens might ride the motif of American carnage to the White House. Since Goodbye, Columbus they have never suffered for readers, and they will make their claim on this readership as they always have, living novels of the future just as they were once the living novels of the 1960s or the 1990s.
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In History's Grip
In History's Grip concentrates on the literature of Philip Roth, one of America's greatest writers, and in particular onAmerican Pastoral, I Married a Communist, and The Human Stain. Each of these novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's twentieth-century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny.
In History's Grip is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer-history. In so doing, the book brings together the two halves of Roth's decades-long career: the first featuring characters who live outside of history's grip; the second, characters entrapped in historical patterns beyond their ken and control.
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Philip Roth, Thomas Mann, and the Other Other Europe
This essay explores the relationship between Thomas Mann and Philip Roth. It posits a close connection between the two writers, based upon a preoccupation with similar themes (the family, the individual, the interplay of libido and repression, etc.) and upon a similar function in the literary culture of Germany and America respectively. This is the function of “the representative writer,” who embodies national history and whose major works are therefore historical benchmarks, signposts of historical change. In exploring this comparison, this essay argues for increased attention, among critics and scholars, to the formative impact that Western European literature has had on Roth's literary imagination.
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