"In-between" Jews in Philip Roth's twentieth century America.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Liao, Sharon Ying Tong.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2010
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35260
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Whiteness is a social construction that is linked to social status. Most of the Jewish American characters in Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus buy into the ‘American Dream’ as they try to assimilate into white American society. In the process of assimilation, they isolate themselves from the traditio...