Our Decentralized Literature: Cultural Mediations in Selected Jewish and Southern Writers [Inscribed]

Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. x, 155 pages; 23 cm; bibliographical references and index. Fine with small dot to fron wraps and very faint foxing to edges. . Paperback. ISBN: 0870235400; 9780870235405

Inscribed & signed by the author. Contents: 1.; Controlling language and culture: Our decentralized literature: the significance of regional, ethnic, racial, and sexual factors --; The assimilation of the American Jewish writer: Abraham Cahan to Saul Bellow --; Immigrant fiction as cultural mediation --; 2.; History, myth, and the ethnic question: History in I.B. Singer's novels --; Edward Dahlberg: the Jewish orphan in America --; Elmer Rice, liberation, and the great ethnic question --; 3.; The Southerner as all-American writer: Realism, cultural politics, and language as mediation in Mark Twain --; Thomas Wolfe and the cult of experience --; Styron's Sophie's choice: Jews and other marginals.;American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism. Judaism and literature -- United States -- History. Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.