A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813589695)

2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating the Jewish American literary canon firmly and inescapably among the immigrant authors and early environments of the early twentieth century. In A Hundred Acres of America, Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.

Author: Michael Hoberman
ISBN-10: 081358969X
ISBN-13: 9780813589695
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2018
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019