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The Jewish American Novel Philippe Codde Purdue University Press ISBN: 978-1-55753-437-8 Philippe Codde provides a comparative cultural analysis of the so-called Jewish Renaissance—the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in postwar US—by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related US-American cultural movements: The popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary existentialism, the increasing visibility of the Holocaust in US-American life, and the advent of radical (death-of-God) theology. Codde argues provocatively that the literary repertoire of the postwar Jewish novel in the US—analyzed from 1944 to 1969—consists of an amalgam of cultural elements that were making their mark in the political, religious, and philosophical systems of the US after the Second World War. Codde proposes that this amalgam explains—in part—the Jewish novel’s sweeping success in the US--American literary system. In his book, Codde traces for the first time this intriguing thematic admixture in the [...] Lire la suite sur Infos Fabula
