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Golem in Jewish American Literature

Risks and Responsibilities in the Fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern

Av Nicola Morris, Daniel Walden

Del 12 i serien Twentieth-century American Jewish Writers

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The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon. Nicola Morris sees this clay humanoid, created in Jewish legend for practical and spiritual purposes, as a metaphor for power and powerlessness and for the complexities and responsibilities surrounding the act of creation. Further, she employs the golem figure as a device to examine the problematic Holocaust representation in the second generation, the uncertain boundaries between fiction and historiography, the ethics of intertextuality and the writer’s responsibility to literary, folkloric and oral sources. Morris concludes with an impassioned plea for the responsible uses of power, technology and language.
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The Author: Nicola Morris teaches in Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program and in the State University of New York College at Cortland’s English Department. She received her Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, State University of New York. Morris has published criticism, essays, poems and stories in literary and professional journals and anthologies.

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«This fascinating and important book studies the golem as a figure for post-Holocaust humanity, a symbol of human creativity that also measures its limitations. It combines rich learning in Jewish culture and history, folklore and theoretical issues of intertextuality, and it probes the meeting places for ethical and artistic issues in contemporary Jewish fiction. The book is original, insightful and very well written.» (Susan Strehle, Professor of English, Binghamton University, State University of New York)«In her examination of the golem figure in contemporary Jewish American novels, Nicola Morris succeeds brilliantly in creating a study that is both thought-provoking to the expert in Jewish mysticism and accessible to the reader who may be encountering golems for the first time.» (Rebecca Lesses, Professor of Jewish Studies, Ithaca College, and author of ‘Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism’)

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