The collection does not impose a schema or new orthodoxy, but instead encourages a plurality of approaches to a difficult and always contentious issue that has been demarcated into broadly defined “politically correct” and “liberal humanist” positions. Liberal humanism asserts that the ameliorating western canon has, by definition, nothing to do with racism or antisemitism. Political correctness wishes to exclude from the academy any literary text deemed to reinforce oppressive stereotypes. This volume adopts neither position, arguing instead that these two supposedly antagonistic approaches are, in fact, mirror-images of each other.
The collection does not impose a schema or new orthodoxy, but instead encourages a plurality of approaches to a difficult and always contentious issue that has been demarcated into broadly defined “politically correct” and “liberal humanist” positions. Liberal humanism asserts that the ameliorating western canon has, by definition, nothing to do with racism or antisemitism. Political correctness wishes to exclude from the academy any literary text deemed to reinforce oppressive stereotypes. This volume adopts neither position, arguing instead that these two supposedly antagonistic approaches are, in fact, mirror-images of each other.
Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
240
Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
240
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780804728539 |
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| Publisher: | Stanford University Press |
| Publication date: | 10/01/1996 |
| Series: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Edition description: | 1 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |