Transferring to America by Rael Meyerowitz

Transferring to America by Rael Meyerowitz

This book primarily concerns the work of three prominent literary scholars, Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, and Sacvan Bercovitch, treating them as second-generation immigrant Jewish Americans. With at least two meanings of transferring in mind, the title alludes both to the historical, socio-cultural actualities of immigrancy, and to the psychoanalytic model used to describe the relations between these readers and the American texts they interpret. The central claim is that the theories and critical practices of Bercovitch, Bloom, and Cavell can be considered as the tools and tactics of an ambivalent, not yet fully realized desire for integration into America. Their cultural identity as members of the Jewish minority in America can thus still be seen to operate as a compelling source of anxiety and motivation.

"This book will fill a major gap in the history of American criticism and ethnic studiesIt also concerns three widely read critics whose work has uninterrupted interest for the general critics writing today." — Sander L. Gilman, Cornell University

"This book functions both as a general statement concerning the role and disposition of the American Jewish intellectual in the study of culture and as a nuanced perspective on different fields of academic endeavor as they are affected by the ethnic affiliations of the scholars in the field." — Emily Budick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Rael Meyerowitz is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University.

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ISBN 13	9780791426074
ISBN 10	0791426076
Title	Transferring to America
Author	Rael Meyerowitz
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	State University of New York Press
Year published	1995-09-14
Number of pages	320
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