Ethnic passing across the Jewish literary diaspora

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dc.contributor.advisorWolitz, Seth L.en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRichmond-Garza, Elizabethen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHoberman, Johnen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLindstrom, Naomien
dc.contributor.committeeMemberRoncador, Soniaen
dc.creatorKatsnelson, Annaen
dc.date.accessioned2012-01-25T20:41:24Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:23:51Z
dc.date.available2012-01-25T20:41:24Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:23:51Z
dc.date.issued2011-12en
dc.date.submittedDecember 2011en
dc.date.updated2012-01-25T20:41:33Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractIn my dissertation, I examine the works of six writers (George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Clarice and Elisa Lispector, Evgenia Ginzburg and Vasilii Aksyonov) who did not explore their Jewish identity in their texts and were subsequently left out of the canons of Jewish literature in their respective countries. My goal is to recalibrate the concept of the Jewish canon from the charged notion of identity to a theory of shared thematic material in which the works of hyphenated Jewish writers will be considered under the category of ‘Jewish American, Brazilian, or Russian’ if they share definite attributes. This was a transnational study showing that similar forces were at work not only in one country, but across continents, affecting the sensibilities of Jewish writers in remarkably similar ways. On a larger scale their de-thematized narratives share thematic tropes and belong to a ‘minor, liminal, marginal narrative,’ a narrative which attempted to work within the scope of the master narratives produced by the hegemonic culture. I have claimed that even though these six writers did not thematize identity in their texts, because of the negative political and social situation for the Jew in the first half of the twentieth century in western civilization, this situation and the writers’ own alterity produced similar and overlapping narratives.en
dc.description.departmentComparative Literatureen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.slug2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4891en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4891en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectJewish literatureen
dc.subjectEthnic literatureen
dc.subjectRussian literatureen
dc.subjectTransnationalen
dc.subjectDe-thematizeden
dc.subjectAmerican literatureen
dc.subjectBrazilian literatureen
dc.subjectComparativeen
dc.subjectGeorge S. Kaufmanen
dc.subjectMoss Harten
dc.subjectClarice and Elisa Lispectoren
dc.subjectEvgenia Ginzburgen
dc.subjectVasilii Aksyonoven
dc.titleEthnic passing across the Jewish literary diasporaen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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