Exiles on Main Street
Author OL3400286A
"How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture - in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman - led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
American literature, jewish authorsJews, united statesGroup identity in literatureAmerican literatureJewish authorsHistory and criticismJewsIdentityJews in literature