Gertrude Stein and the Making of Jewish Modernism
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experimental poetry
Gertrude Stein
Jewish Culture
Jewish Experience
Jewish Identity
Jewish Writers
Judaism
Marriage
Matthew Arnold
Modernism
modernist fiction
Nationalism
persecution of Jews
The Making of Americans
wartime occupation
women writers
World War II
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780813068756
- Weight: 424g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage into her work, this book uncovers Stein’s constant and varied writing about Jewish topics throughout her career. Amy Feinstein argues that Judaism was central to Stein’s ideas about modernity, showing how Stein connects the modernist era to the Jewish experience.
Combing through Stein’s scholastic writings, drafting notebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that have puzzled scholars. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of Matthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein’s epic novel The Making of Americans. In Stein’s experimental “voices” poems, Feinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of marriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, compares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of Jews.
Combing through Stein’s scholastic writings, drafting notebooks, and literary works, Feinstein analyzes references to Judaism that have puzzled scholars. She reveals the never-before-discussed influence of Matthew Arnold as well as a hidden Jewish framework in Stein’s epic novel The Making of Americans. In Stein’s experimental “voices” poems, Feinstein identifies an explicitly Jewish vocabulary that expresses themes of marriage, nationalism, and Zionism. She also shows how Wars I Have Seen, written in Vichy France during World War II, compares the experience of wartime occupation with the historic persecution of Jews.
Amy Feinstein teaches English in the New York City public schools.
