KOY, Christopher. Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: The "Very Very Screwed Up" Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral. Litteraria Pragensia. Praha: Faculty of Arts, Charles Universit in Praque, 2015, vol. 25, č. 49, s. 47-60. ISSN 0862-8424. |
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@article{29241, author = {Koy, Christopher}, article_location = {Praha}, article_number = {49}, keywords = {similarities; intertextual study; two novels; Singer}, language = {eng}, issn = {0862-8424}, journal = {Litteraria Pragensia}, title = {Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: The "Very Very Screwed Up" Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral}, volume = {vol. 25}, year = {2015} }
TY - JOUR ID - 29241 AU - Koy, Christopher PY - 2015 TI - Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: The "Very Very Screwed Up" Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral JF - Litteraria Pragensia VL - vol. 25 IS - 49 SP - 47-60 EP - 47-60 PB - Faculty of Arts, Charles Universit in Praque SN - 08628424 KW - similarities KW - intertextual study KW - two novels KW - Singer N2 - In this article I trace numerous similarities in plot, setting, characters and motif in two novels. The approaching European war and holocaust in Israel Joshua Singer's novel The Family Carnovsky and the brutality of the Vietnam War of Roth's novel American Pastoral serve as the dreadful conditions which trigger the half-Jewish teenage child in each novel to revolt against the assimilating Jewish father figure and commit subversive acts against the U.S. government. I argue that the numerous similarities are not merely coincidental in this intertextual study, but that Roth has most likely updated Singer's depiction of a pre-WWII refuge family to America's next major crisis, namely the Vietnam era in the 1960s and 1970s ER -
KOY, Christopher. Half-Jew, Half-Gentile: The ''Very Very Screwed Up'' Child in The Family Carnovsky and American Pastoral. \textit{Litteraria Pragensia}. Praha: Faculty of Arts, Charles Universit in Praque, 2015, vol. 25, č.~49, s.~47-60. ISSN~0862-8424.
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