Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity
Original language description
Although the Jewish Diaspora in America serves as an unlimited reservoir of literary inspiration for Jewish American writers, some of them feel an urge to leave the geographical borders of the United States and to travel abroad. In some of these writers? works, their protagonists travel to Europe to explore the land of their ancestors and recreate their Jewishness. Their journey to the Old World is often motivated by their desire to discover the truth about their family history; however, the motivation for their journey may be the curiosity of a tourist or a desire to flee from their everyday domestic frustrations ? which, nevertheless, may ultimately be transformed into an unexpected (re)discovery of Jewish identity and self-knowledge. My paper examines this theme in the novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, Bernard Malamud?s short story ?The Lady of the Lake? and his novella ?Man in the Drawer,? and Philip Roth?s novella ?The Prague Orgy.?
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Silesian Studies in English 2015. Proceedings of the 4rd International Conference of English and American Studies
ISBN
978-80-7510-204-1
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Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
140-150
Publisher name
Silesian University in Opava
Place of publication
Opava
Event location
Opava
Event date
Jan 1, 2015
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
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