Teaching Jewish American Literature

Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Jewish American fiction, poetry, drama, graphic novels, children's literature, and digital texts, including considerations of religious and secular Jewish culture, race and multicultural contexts, immigration, the Holocaust, gender and sexuality, multilingual literary traditions, and humor. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses.

Summary

Takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the Americas and continuing to contemporary Soviet-born authors in the United States, including works that engage deeply with religious concepts and others that embrace assimilation.

Product details

• Authors: Roberta (EDT)/ Rubinstein Rosenberg
• Assisted by: Roberta Rosenberg (Editor), Rachel Rubinstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781603294720
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-472-0
• No. of pages: 347
• Series: Options for Teaching
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies