Title Third solitudes : tradition and discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian literature / Michael Greenstein

Published Kingston, Ont. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 232 pages) Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Doublecrossing the Atlantic in A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll -- 2 Canadian Poetry after Auschwitz: Layton, Cohen, Mandel -- 3 From Vienna to Edmonton: Henry Kreisel's Almost Meetings -- 4 Between Ottawa and St Ives: Norman Levine's Tight-Rope Walkers -- 5 Homeward Unbound: Jack Ludwig's American Exile -- 6 From Origins to Margins: Adele Wiseman's Immigrants -- 7 Subverting Westmount: Leonard Cohen's New Jews -- 8 Richler's Runners: Decentauring St Urbain Street -- 9 The French Disconnection: Monique Bosco en abyme 10 Invisible Borders: Naim Kattan's Internationalism11 Matt Cohen's Jeru-Salem -- 12 Conclusion -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- P -- S -- T -- Y -- Z -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z Summary Canadian-Jewish literature, Greenstein argues, is characterized by the sense of homelessness and exile which dominated the writings of the father of Jewish-Canadian literature, A.M. Klein. Greenstein finds the paradigm for this sense of loss in Henry Kreisel's short story, "The Almost Meeting." Using the theme of this story as a base, Greenstein describes how the Jewish-Canadian writer is divided between life in Canada and a rich European past - between life in the New World and the strong traditions of the Old. The Jewish-Canadian writer may look for a home in both these places, but neither is fulfilling as both are necessary parts of the individual. The writer thus straddles two incompatible worlds and must expect the loss of one or the other. In the struggle to overcome these difficulties and maintain a true dialogue with others and themselves, such writers experience missed or "almost meetings" as they cope with the homelessness that characterizes diaspora and Canada's "third solitude." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Canadian literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Jews -- Canada -- Intellectual life Judaism and literature -- Canada Jews in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian. Canadian literature -- Jewish authors Jews in literature Jews -- Intellectual life Judaism and literature Literatur Einsamkeit Motiv Canada Kanada Juden. Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773561854 0773561854

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