Strange Times to be a Jew: Alternative History after 9/11

Scanlan, Margaret

doi:10.1353/mfs.2011.0067

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“…While Roth argued that The Plot against America was fictional, and not a parable of contemporary repression (Roth, , 10), Margaret Scanlan insists that The Plot against America “was more popular than any other work by Roth. […] If political passions did not account entirely for the commercial success of the new book, they certainly affected the way the text was read” (Scanlan, , 117). In the same way as The Plot against America could be read as an oblique criticism of current events, so could Indignation , especially as the latter work also contemplates on the unfolding of American history and relations to the Other not only inside its borders but also outside, in a manner similar to the former work.…”

Section: Indignationmentioning

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Remembering the “forgotten war” after 9/11

Yoo

2018

Orbis Litterarum

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This study looks closely at the treatment of the Korean War (1950–1953) in Indignation, by Philip Roth (), and Home, by Toni Morrison (), and reads in those works a re‐evaluation of the American experience in Korea in light of the conditions and concerns of the post‐9/11 era. In their portrayal of the forgotten Korean War, Roth and Morrison challenge redeployment of 1950s Cold War‐style frames and rhetoric by the Bush–Cheney administration in the context of the “War on Terror” and state violence at home and abroad. In other words, the two novels reveal the way the violence and repression harbored in American society during the 1950s spill over onto foreign societies and, having been amplified on foreign battlefields, are brought back home—not only a historical observation, but a productive response to 9/11.

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Section: Indignationmentioning

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Remembering the “forgotten war” after 9/11

Yoo

2018

Orbis Litterarum

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“America First”: Perpetual Fear, Memory, and Everyday Life in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America

Liao

2020

Post-9/11 Historical Fiction and Alternate History Fiction

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The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

2015

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This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

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Strange Times to be a Jew: Alternative History after 9/11

Cited by 33 publications

References 6 publications

Remembering the “forgotten war” after 9/11

Remembering the “forgotten war” after 9/11

“America First”: Perpetual Fear, Memory, and Everyday Life in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America

The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature

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