Lexington Books
Pages: 158
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-6502-8 • Hardback • November 2017 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
978-1-4985-6503-5 • eBook • November 2017 • $85.50 • (£60.00)
Aaron Tillman is associate professor of English and director of the Honors Program at Newbury College.
Introduction
Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film
Chapter 1
Postmodern Neurotic: Jewish American Excess and the Narrative Body in
Woody Allen’s Annie Hall
Chapter 2
Presuming the Dominant Gaze: Spirits of Shame in Cynthia Ozick’s
“Levitation”
Chapter 3
Collecting Pain: Masochism, Identity, and Archiving Trauma Testimony in
Melvin Jules Bukiet’s “The Library of Moloch”
Chapter 4
“‘Jewish, Here in the Back’: Magical and Comical Discord between Religiosity and Ethnicity in Nathan Englander’s ‘The Gilgul of Park Avenue’ and Steve Stern’s ‘The Tale of a Kite’”
Chapter 5
“Through the Rube Goldberg Crazy Straw”: Ethnic Mobility and Narcissistic
Fantasy in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic
Conclusion
Portraying the Impossible: Franz Kafka and the Magical Influence of an Enigmatic Artist