Authors: Marie-Caroline Bonnet-Galzy, Rachel Rubin
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press
In the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to