What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction

What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.

Author/creator	Aarons, Victoria
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©2005.
Description	181 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	American fiction--Jewish authors --History and criticism. Jews--United States --Intellectual life. Covenants--Religious aspects --Judaism. Judaism and literature--United States. Judaism in literature. Jews in literature.

Contents	The return of the covenant, or, Whose law is it, anyway? -- Biblical revisions and interruptions : Bernard Malamud's renaming of law and covenant -- Is it "good-for-the-Jews or no-good-for-the-Jews"? : Philip Roth's registry of Jewish consciousness -- Ancient acts of love and betrayal : Ethan Canin's "Batorsag and Szerelem" -- The orthodoxy unbound, or Moses in suburbia : Allegra Goodman's The family Markowitz -- The legacy of the disinherited : Thane Rosenbaum's Holocaust fiction.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-176) and index.
LCCN	2004015173
ISBN	0874139015 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS647.J4 A15 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold