Jewish gangsters of modern literature

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"In this study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster as a locus for exploring questions of artistic power in the interwar years. Focusing specifically on the Russian writer Isaac Babel and Americans Mike Gold, Samuel Ornitz, and Daniel Fuchs, but also taking in cartoons, movies, and modernist paintings, Rubin casts the Jewish gangster as a favorite figure used by left-wing Jewish writers to examine their own place in world history.".

"Rubin contends that these writers saw their artistic endeavors as akin to the work of their gangster doubles: outcasts and rebels "kneebreaking" their way into the literary canon while continuing to "do business" with the system.

In the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to explore the fate of Jewishness in the "new worlds" of the United States and the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
189

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Jewish gangsters of modern literature
2000, University of Illinois Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on transliteration
Introduction : the dream of his kingdom
Imagine you are a tiger : a new folk hero in Babel's Odessa tales
Sordid generation : plundering ethnic culture in Samuel Ornitz's Haunch paunch and jowl
Gang of little Yids : savage Jews in Mike Gold's Jews without money
Business is business : the death of the gangster in Daniel Fuchs's novels of the 1930s
Conclusion : the gangster's funeral
Notes
References cited
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.

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Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.540935203924
Library of Congress
PS374.J48 R83 2000, PS374.J48R83 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 189 p. :
Number of pages
189

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30395M
ISBN 10
0252025393
LCCN
99006761
OCLC/WorldCat
41951128
Goodreads
106310

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