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Young Lions
Leah Garrett
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Description for Young Lions
Paperback. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman MailerAEs The Naked and the Dead to Joseph HellerAEs Catch-22 , and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American publicAEs ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBWJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American public’s ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. In ... Read more
Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel shows how Jews, traditionally castigated as weak and cowardly, for the first time became the popular literary representatives of what it meant to be a soldier and what it meant to be an American. Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American public’s ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life. In ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Expressions of World War II
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810131750
SKU
V9780810131750
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About Leah Garrett
Leah Garrett is Loti Smorgon Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at Monash University in Australia.
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