Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature Hardcover - 2000
by Rachel Rubin
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In this vividly written study, Rachel Rubin posits the Jewish literary gangster -- a figure whose violence, transgressiveness, and ongoing internal conflict render him an important symbol of modernity -- 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.
In addition to tracing the transformation of a Russian folk hero into a pivotal figure in American literature, Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature argues persuasively for inducting these leftist writers -- with their interest in the literary gangster who boldly challenges the social and economic hierarchy -- into the circle of experimental modernists that has hitherto excluded them.
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- Title Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
- Author Rachel Rubin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
- Date 2000-04
- ISBN 9780252025396 / 0252025393
- Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.33 x 0.78 in (23.75 x 16.08 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects American fiction - 20th century - History, Jews - United States - Intellectual life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99006761
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.540
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