"Something Dreadful and Grand"
Abstract This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.001.0001 2024-06-09T07:48:17+00:00 "Something Dreadful and Grand" American Literature and The Irish-Jewish Unconscious Watt, Stephen 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.001.0001 unknown Oxford University PressNew York ISBN 0190227958 9780190227951 9780190227975 edited-book 2015 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190227951.001.0001 2024-05-10T13:16:52Z Abstract This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and melodrama as part of a larger “circum–North Atlantic” world in which texts and performers from Ireland, Europe, and America were involved in a continuous cultural exchange within which stereotypes and performances of Jewishness and Irishness took center stage. For this reason, such Irish writers as James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, and Sean O’Casey played pivotal roles in the development of modern American culture, particularly as they influenced and interacted with writers like Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Henry Roth, and many others. Such Irish-American writers as Eugene O’Neill were similarly influenced by their interactions with Jewish-American writers like Michael Gold and Edward Dahlberg. While focusing on the modern period, this project traces a genealogy of modern drama and fiction to the nineteenth-century stage in which Irish and Jewish melodrama—and the appearances of international stars in such roles as Shylock and Leah, the Forsaken—shaped the often contradictory and excessive dimensions of ethnicity that are both allo-Semitic and allo-Hibernian. It also explores the larger dimensions of an Irish-Jewish unconscious underlying cultural production in America. The closing chapter considers more recent representations of Irish-Jewish interactions by John Banville, Brendan Behan, Norman Mailer, and Harold Pinter; and examples from a newer immigrant literature bring this discussion into the present. Book North Atlantic Oxford University Press Allo ENVELOPE(-61.800,-61.800,-63.967,-63.967) Clifford ENVELOPE(-63.167,-63.167,-70.467,-70.467) |
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Abstract This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and melodrama as part of a larger “circum–North Atlantic” world in which texts and performers from Ireland, Europe, and America were involved in a continuous cultural exchange within which stereotypes and performances of Jewishness and Irishness took center stage. For this reason, such Irish writers as James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, and Sean O’Casey played pivotal roles in the development of modern American culture, particularly as they influenced and interacted with writers like Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Henry Roth, and many others. Such Irish-American writers as Eugene O’Neill were similarly influenced by their interactions with Jewish-American writers like Michael Gold and Edward Dahlberg. While focusing on the modern period, this project traces a genealogy of modern drama and fiction to the nineteenth-century stage in which Irish and Jewish melodrama—and the appearances of international stars in such roles as Shylock and Leah, the Forsaken—shaped the often contradictory and excessive dimensions of ethnicity that are both allo-Semitic and allo-Hibernian. It also explores the larger dimensions of an Irish-Jewish unconscious underlying cultural production in America. The closing chapter considers more recent representations of Irish-Jewish interactions by John Banville, Brendan Behan, Norman Mailer, and Harold Pinter; and examples from a newer immigrant literature bring this discussion into the present. |
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