Jewish American Literature and Culture: Insider/Outsider
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Andy Kaufman, Masked Jewishness, and Ironic Cultural Ventriloquism. Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State College of Denver
This paper explores dada Jewish comic Andy Kaufman's cultural ventriloquism, contrasting it with that of earlier Jewish cultural ventriloquists such as Al Jolson, and exploring the very Jewishness of Kaufman’s cultural appropriations and effacing of his Jewishness.
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Little American Women: The Role of Louisa May Alcott in Mary Antin's Assimilation. Jaime Cleland, Ohio University
While some ethnic American writers have described a sense of exclusion while reading Little Women, Antin subversively claims the book as a validation of her identity as an American woman writer and as a template for her autobiography.
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Integration as Crisis: The Plot Against America and Identity at the Fault-line. Laurence Dumortier, University of California, Riverside
This talk will explore the complex moral issues raised by Philip Roth’s novel The Plot Against America, in which the country is invaded not by troops and tanks but by a divisive ideology that threatens to destroy America from within.
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