Coming Out Jewish explores the idea of 'Jewishness' as a problem of racial/ethnic identity in the modern and post-modern world. It is a path-breaking book that firmly places the Jewish experience on the Cultural Studies agenda. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1KBB; 1MBF; JFFJ; JFSL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 521. . 2000. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415222087
ISBN 13: 9780415222082
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found himself increasingly torn between his fear of not belonging and a deeply-felt commitment to his family's past.
Coming Out Jewish examines the unique challenge of constructing an identity amid the clash between ethnicity and conformity. For many Jews, the idea of full assimilation ended with the Holocaust. But the pressure to adapt to the mainstream, Stratton eloquently argues, remains powerful, especially for those with anglicized names, assimilationist parents, a history of recent immigration, or ambivalent experiences of themselves as Jews. With reference to the work of Daniel Boyarin, Ien Ang, and Homi Bhabha, among others, Stratton offers fresh analysis on a wide range of topics, including the Jewish origins of pluralism in the US, anti-Semitism in Germany, the Jewishness of sitcoms like Seinfeld, and the Yiddishization of American culture since World War II.
More than a book about Jews and Jewishness, Coming Out Jewish smartly and accurately mines the Jewish experience in the West to give voice to the issues of migration, Diaspora, assimilation and identity that affect those, displaced and 'othered', around the world.

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Jon Stratton is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology, Australia

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