Just one of the goys: Salinger's, Miller's, and Malamud's hidden jewish heroes

In his seminal essay “Jewish-Americans, Go Home” (1964), Leslie Fiedler attacked postwar Jewish writing and its widespread use of what he controversially labeled “crypto-Jewish characters,” who are in habit, speech, and condition of life typically Jewish-American, but who are presented as something...

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Published in:AJS review
Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Garrett, Leah 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press [2010]
In: AJS review
Further subjects:B Jewish Culture
B Jewish literature
B Writers
B Judaism
B Novels
B Jewish migration
B Jewish Americans
B American literature
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Summary:In his seminal essay “Jewish-Americans, Go Home” (1964), Leslie Fiedler attacked postwar Jewish writing and its widespread use of what he controversially labeled “crypto-Jewish characters,” who are in habit, speech, and condition of life typically Jewish-American, but who are presented as something else—general-American say, as in Death of a Salesman.
ISSN:1475-4541
Contains:Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0364009410000310