Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: the 'Very Very Screwed Up' Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral

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Alternative codes found

RIV/75081431:_____/15:00000523

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: the 'Very Very Screwed Up' Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral

Original language description

In this article I trace numerous similarities in plot, setting, characters and motif in two novels. The approaching European war and holocaust in Israel Joshua Singer's novel The Family Carnovsky and the brutality of the Vietnam War of Philip Roth's novel American Pastoral serve as the dreadful conditions which trigger the half-Jewish teenage child in each novel to revolt against the assimilating Jewish father figure and commit subversive acts against the U.S. government. I argue that the numerous similarities are not merely coincidental in this intertextual study, but that Philip Roth has most likely updated I.J. Singer's depiction of a pre-WWII refuge family to America's next major crisis, namely the Vietnam era in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Litteraria Pragensia

ISSN

0862-8424

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

49

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

47 - 59

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