Increasing the Profitability of 'Racial Exchange': Response to Freedman

Autor:	Susan Zaeske
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Literature and Literary Theory Aside Judaism media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Confession Freedman Appropriation Law Cultural studies Rhetoric Sociology American literature media_common
Zdroj:	American Literary History. 12:600-604
ISSN:	1468-4365 0896-7148
DOI:	10.1093/alh/12.3.600
Popis:	At the beginning of his provocative essay on The Searchers (1956), Jonathan Freedman makes a confession. For the past five years, he admits, he has been obsessed by one question: "[W]hat happens to literary and cultural studies in general, and the study of American literature in particular, when we factor in that different form of difference we know as Jewish difference?" I must admit that I share a similar interest. For the past few years, I have been exploring the appropriation of Jewish stories and figures in the rhetoric of American women, particularly abolitionists, attempting to justify their right to speak in public. Putting aside the prospect of "Jewish difference" for a mo
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