{"product_id":"borrowed-voices-writing-and-racial-ventriloquism-in-the-jewish-american-imagination-paperback-softback-9780813577395","title":"Borrowed Voices; Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813577395","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBorrowed Voices\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Glaser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813577395\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Glaser offers a nuanced, impressively researched, and innovatively crafted setoff reading that requires us to rethink the messy-but-critical connection between race and Jewishness. It is an excellent book.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Maeera Y. Shreiber (University of Utah) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBorrowed Voices\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to understand how our rapid-fire transmission of affect and fascination with identity is a manifestation of deep anxieties over power and belonging in America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Jewish History) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Glaser offers a nuanced, impressively researched, and innovatively crafted setoff reading that requires us to rethink the messy-but-critical connection between race and Jewishness. It is an excellent book.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Maeera Y. Shreiber (University of Utah) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBorrowed Voices\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to understand how our rapid-fire transmission of affect and fascination with identity is a manifestation of deep anxieties over power and belonging in America.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (American Jewish History)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn the decades following World War II, many American Jews sought to downplay their difference, as a means of assimilating into Middle America. Yet a significant minority, including many prominent Jewish writers and intellectuals, clung to their ethnic difference, using it to register dissent with the status quo and act as spokespeople for non-white America. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIn this provocative book, Jennifer Glaser examines how racial ventriloquism became a hallmark of Jewish-American fiction, as Jewish writers asserted that their own ethnicity enabled them to speak for other minorities. Rather than simply condemning this racial ventriloquism as a form of cultural appropriation or commending it as an act of empathic imagination, \u003ci\u003eBorrowed Voices\u003c\/i\u003e offers a nuanced analysis of the technique, judiciously assessing both its limitations and its potential benefits.  Glaser considers how the practice of racial ventriloquism has changed over time, examining the books of many well-known writers, including Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Michael Chabon, Saul Bellow, and many others.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBringing Jewish studies into conversation with critical race theory, Glaser also opens up a dialogue between Jewish-American literature and other forms of media, including films, magazines, and graphic novels. Moreover, she demonstrates how Jewish-American fiction can help us understand the larger anxieties about ethnic identity, authenticity, and authorial voice that emerged in the wake of the civil rights movement.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Introduction \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 1. The Politics and Poetics of Speaking the Other \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 2. The Perils of Loving in America \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 3. What We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 4. The Jew in the Canon and Culture Wars \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 5. Race, Indigeneity, and the Topography of Diaspora in Contemporary Jewish American Literature \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Coda \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Notes \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Works Cited \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Index \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559357608216,"sku":"9780813577395","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/borrowed-voices-writing-and-racial-ventriloquism-in-the-jewish-american-imagination-paperback-softback-9780813577395","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}