Papers are invited for all aspects of “Jewish Identity and Modernism --
From Myth to Illusion, a Re-examination” for the American Literary
Modernism panel at the 10th annual Central New York Conference on Language
and Literature, Cortland College – SUNY, October 29-31,2000.
How is identity perceived, how is it transmitted? What aspects of
modernism might subvert or confirm one’s “ethnic identity”? A range of
early twentieth-century writers – Henry Roth, Alfred Kazin, Gertrude
Stein, among others – have explored and answered, in part, some of these
questions. How might these writers differ – in esthetics and identity --
from those of the postwar years – such as Norman Mailer, Philip Roth,
Tillie Olsen, Kathy Acker? What illusions might Jewish writers be working
under; what myths might they encounter or help to perpetuate? Finally, we
might ask, can Jewishness (or, for that matter, any mode of racializing)
be expressed truthfully within modernist conventions?
Abstracts by July 15; papers by August.
Josh Gosciak
381 East Tenth Street
New York, NY 10009
(212) 674-0911
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