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You should see yourself : Jewish identity in postmodern American culture
- Title
- You should see yourself : Jewish identity in postmodern American culture / edited by Vincent Brook.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Brook, Vincent, 1946-
- Description
- ix, 337 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : seeing isn't believing / Vincent Brook -- Re-imagining the Jew's body : from self-loathing to "Grepts" / Andrea Most -- Recalling "home" from beneath the shadow of the Holocaust : American Jewish women writers of the new wave / Janet Handler Burstein -- "Your world is very different from mine" : troubling Jewish identity in postmodern American theater / Jan Lewis -- Tony Kushner's metaphorical Jew / James Fisher -- Exploring the postmodern landscape of Jewish music / Judah M. Cohen -- Continuity, creativity, and conflict : the ongoing search for "Jewish" music / Marsha Bryan Edelman -- The Jewish man and his dancing shtick : stock characterization and Jewish masculinity in postmodern dance / Rebecca Rossen -- Between exile and irony : modernism, postmodernism, and Jewish modes of thought / Ruth Weisberg -- Observant Jews and the photographic arena of looks / MacDonald Moore, Deborah Dash Moore -- Joke-work : the construction of Jewish postmodern identity in contemporary theory and American film / Ruth D. Johnston -- They all are Jews / Daniel Itzkovitz -- Genealogies of Jewish stand-up : looking back, moving beyond / Donald Weber -- Something old is new again? : postmodern Jewishness in Curb your enthusiasm, Arrested development, and The O.C. / Michele Byers, Rosalin Krieger -- "Y'all killed him, we didn't!" : Jewish self-hatred and The Larry Sanders show / Vincent Brook.
- Call Number
- *PZB 07-672
- ISBN
- 0813538440 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813538440 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813538459 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813538457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005028060
- OCLC
- 61859742
- Title
- You should see yourself : Jewish identity in postmodern American culture / edited by Vincent Brook.
- Imprint
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Brook, Vincent, 1946-
- Research Call Number
- *PZB 07-672