Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofJewish American Literature
- The Cambridge History ofJewish American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I New World Encounters
- Part II Genres: Adopting, Adapting, Reinventing
- Part III Place and Peoplehood: Redefining “Here” and “There”
- Part IV Creating Fields
- Part V New Perspectives
- 25 Jews on America’s Racial Map
- 26 Gender Poetics in Jewish American Poetry
- 27 Performance: Queerly Jewish/Jewishly Queer in the American Theater
- 28 Jewish American Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- 29 Jewish American Popular Culture
- 30 Jewish Humor in America
- 31 Since 2000
- Bibliography
- Index
31 - Since 2000
from Part V - New Perspectives
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofJewish American Literature
- The Cambridge History ofJewish American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction
- Part I New World Encounters
- Part II Genres: Adopting, Adapting, Reinventing
- Part III Place and Peoplehood: Redefining “Here” and “There”
- Part IV Creating Fields
- Part V New Perspectives
- 25 Jews on America’s Racial Map
- 26 Gender Poetics in Jewish American Poetry
- 27 Performance: Queerly Jewish/Jewishly Queer in the American Theater
- 28 Jewish American Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- 29 Jewish American Popular Culture
- 30 Jewish Humor in America
- 31 Since 2000
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
When Michael Chabon won the Pulitzer Prize in spring 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, it was the first time that the National Book Award went to a work of fiction about Jews by a writer born after 1933. This chapter argues that the key developments for understanding the wave of writing about Jews that crested after the millennium were the institutional ones. The flourishing of Jewish American literature after 2000 resulted from its institutionalization: the marked increase in support for work within a range of relevant educational, social, media, and community organizations. Among the hundred most widely circulated magazines in the country, the only one currently publishing literary fiction on a regular basis is the New Yorker. Non-Jewish authors whose books are deemed to be of interest to the Jewish Book Council's audiences and Jews who have written books with no overt Jewish content regularly and without controversy take part in the Jewish Book Network.
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- The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature , pp. 622 - 642Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015