Disruptive memories: Cynthia Ozick, assimilation, and the invented past.

From: MELUS | Date: September 22, 1995| Author: Powers, Peter Kerry | Copyright information

Cynthia Ozick opines that Jewish-American authors have generally achieved literary success by avoiding that which is historically Jewish in favor of the short-lived idea of Jewish racial group identity. Ozick addresses the threat of cultural incorporation through her works. Ozick's fiction disrupts the notion that the present destroys the past, by bringing the past into a living relationship or confrontation with the present.

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