Some thoughts on the mutual displacements/appropriations/accomodations of culture in several fictions by Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, and Grace Paley

Article Abstract:

The influence of the Jewish experience on the structure of literary works in the West can be observed through a critical reexamination of the issues surrounding the question of cultural displacement in modern American fiction. The use of Jewish materials by three prominent women writers is analyzed to provide proof of the extent of this still unacknowledged influence of the Jewish experience on contemporary fiction. Among the works analyzed in this context are Toni Morrison's 'The Song of Solomon' and 'Beloved,' Cynthia Ozick's 'The Shawl' and 'Rosa,' and Grace Paley's 'Zagrowsky Tells.'

Women writers, Antisemitism in literature, Antisemitic literature, Women authors, Criticism, Textual, Textual criticism, Morrison, Toni, Racism in literature, Jewish literature, Ozick, Cynthia, Paley, Grace

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"My soul was with the gods and my body in the village": Zora Neale Hurston, Franz Boas, Melville Herskovits, and Ruth Benedict

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Zora Neale Hurston was a student of eminent anthropologist Franz Boas and had occasion to work with Melville Herskovits and Ruth Benedict. In her years working as an anthropologist she was attempting to define herself as a creative writer as well. The details of her correspondence with Benedict and Herskovits and some of her research in Haiti offers insights into Hurston's process of self-definition.

Influence, Anthropology, Hurston, Zora Neale, Boas, Franz, Herskovits, Melville

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Anthropological fictions: On character, culture, and sexuality in the work of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Virginia Woolf

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Ruth Benedict's reading of Virginia Woolf, along with Margaret Mead's subsequent response is considered as evidence of a shared critical engagement with character, culture, and sexuality in the early 20th century. Benedict and Mead attempt to understand the self and self-development through careful, occasionally prurient observation of other people's behavior.

United States, Works, Woolf, Virginia, Mead, Margaret

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