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The Representation Of A Child's Consciousness In Adult Literary Texts Is An Unusual Creative Challenge. Nonetheless, The Exercise Of Imagination Required To Portray A Child's Inner Life Has Figured Prominently In Twentieth-century Jewish Fiction. In Imagining The Child In Modern Jewish Fiction, Naomi Sokoloff Draws On Contemporary Narrative Theory--especially The Work Of M.m. Bakhtin--to Establish A Critical Framework For Reading A Range Of Hebrew, Yiddish, And English Texts That Focus On Young Protagonists And The Workings Of A Child's Imagination. The Fictional Texts Sokoloff Considers Are Not Accounts Of Purely Private Experience. According To The Author, The Young Character Serves As A Vehicle For Expressing Religious, Social, And Political Concerns. The Novelty Of Outlook Made Possible Through Attempts To Inhabit The Otherness Of The Child Also Offers A Powerful Literary Strategy For Exploring Jewish Self-conception. To Illustrate This Dynamic, Sokoloff Concentrates On Two Clusters Of Thematic Materials. First, She Discusses Works By Sholem Aleichem, H.n. Bialik, And Henry Roth That Revolve Around A Shift Away From The Torah-centered World Of Tradition Toward More Secular, Ind

Author

Sokoloff, Professor Naomi

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801843730

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities