TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicola Morris
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Golem in Jewish American Literature
T2  - Risks and Responsibilities in the Fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1103930
N2  - The Golem in Jewish American Literature explores the golem in the fiction of Thane Rosenbaum, Nomi Eve and Steve Stern as well as writers such as Michael Chabon. Nicola Morris sees this clay humanoid, created in Jewish legend for practical and spiritual purposes, as a metaphor for power and powerlessness and for the complexities and responsibilities surrounding the act of creation. Further, she employs the golem figure as a device to examine the problematic Holocaust representation in the second generation, the uncertain boundaries between fiction and historiography, the ethics of intertextuality and the writer’s responsibility to literary, folkloric and oral sources. Morris concludes with an impassioned plea for the responsible uses of power, technology and language.
KW  - Jewish American Literature, Rosenbaum, Thane, Golem, Holocaust Representation, Jewish Mysticism, Eve, Nomi, Stern, Steve
LA  - English
ER  -