Publisher's Synopsis
An excursion into the heart of the Jewish imagination and its expression in American letters in our time, this book looks at the areas of politics and literature that engaged the Jewish writers and intellectuals of the post-war decades. The book continues in the same vein as the author's previous book, "After the Revolution: Studies of the Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination". The author has also written "Joyce in Nighttown: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry into James Joyce's 'Ulysses'" and "Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader".
