Publication

2005 - University of Delaware Press, Newark, Delaware

Language

English

Word Count

45,250 words, Guess

Page Count

181 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing2325127

Classifications

  • DDC813.009/3829631172
  • LCCPS647.J4 A15 2005

Description

"What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America. In attempting to locate a place for Jewish identity at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, American Jewish writers look to an imaginary "memory" to reengage a defining, central Jewish history that has, post-World War II, become diluted in American culture."--Jacket.

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