Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.?

Název v anglickém jazyce

Traveling to Europe to (Re)Discover Jewish Identity

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.?

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Silesian Studies in English 2015. Proceedings of the 4rd International Conference of English and American Studies

ISBN

978-80-7510-204-1

ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

140-150

Název nakladatele

Silesian University in Opava

Místo vydání

Opava

Místo konání akce

Opava

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2015

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

EUR - Evropská akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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