Henry Roth's "Call It Sleep": A Different Look at the Jewish Immigrant Experience

• Autorzy: John Crust
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Henry Roth's book, Call It Sleep, is not typically included in a course on Jewish- American literature. Discovering, or rediscovering, this gem of a novel is a pure literary and linguistic delight. The story describes the life of a young Jewish immigrant boy and his family in New York between the years 1911 and 1913. In an excellent example of modernist literature, it is through the eyes of little David Schearl we see the real America: it is an America of alienation, confusion, and violence, a tarnished land where a family struggles between its Jewish heritage and American acceptance. And as Roth breaks down the illusions of immigrant life, he also shatters the romanticism associated with the Jewish culture, illustrating how a pious patriarchal social order could be a façade to cover up the cold realities of family hostilities. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Literature; Jews

PL

Literatura; Żydzi

• Czasopismo: Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: 12
• Numer: z. 11 Participations and Assessments (2)
• Strony: 63--67

Twórcy

autor

John Crust

• University of Essex, United Kingdom

Bibliografia

• Roth, H., Call It Sleep. New York: Noonday Press, 1994.