Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Jewish American Literature
Term
2023A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
JWST
Section number only
401
Section ID
JWST1110401
Course number integer
1110
Meeting times
TR 10:15 AM-11:44 AM
Meeting location
BENN 141
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Kathryn Hellerstein
Description
What makes Jewish American literature Jewish? What makes it American? This course will address these questions about ethnic literature through fiction, poetry, drama, and other writings by Jews in America, from their arrival in 1654 to the present. We will discuss how Jewish identity and ethnicity shape literature and will consider how form and language develop as Jewish writers "immigrate" from Yiddish, Hebrew, and other languages to American English. Our readings, from Jewish American Literature: A Norton Anthology, will include a variety of stellar authors, both famous and less-known, including Isaac Mayer Wise, Emma Lazarus, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Celia Dropkin, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Allegra Goodman. Students will come away from this course having explored the ways that Jewish culture intertwines with American culture in literature.
Course number only
1110
Cross listings
COML1110401, GRMN1110401
Fulfills
Cultural Diviserity in the U.S.
Arts & Letters Sector
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No