{"product_id":"philip-roth-and-the-body-jewishness-gender-and-race-hardcover","title":"Philip Roth and the Body: Jewishness, Gender, and Race - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Lander\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTo what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e questions the symbolic functionality of the corporeal in Roth's main works of fiction, particularly as sites of gender and racial identification for Roth's protagonists. In his recurrent employment of the abject, Roth throws into doubt the body as a coherent, stable entity, undermining his male characters' determinations of gendered and racial otherness through his porously unstable bodies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Joshua Lander draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his theory of the 'conceptual Jew' to argue that Roth's fiction is yoked together by a shared interest in how anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jewish difference - centered around the body - pervasively inform American Jewish identities. The book also contends that Roth resists American white nationalism by transforming the body's ejaculations, excretions, secretions, and expulsions into symbols of difference that he repeatedly ties to Jewishness. At the same time, this study highlights how Roth's novels, through his focus on Jewish men, risk the reification of America's sexist social structures as they intersect with the very racism Roth seeks to undermine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Roth and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e's\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eexamination of how bodies in Roth's fiction are entities troubled within his prose renews conversations about whose bodies matter, both in Roth studies and in the context of America's racial and social politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Lander\u003c\/b\u003e obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow in 2019, where his research focused on the novels of Philip Roth and the Jewish body. He currently works as a secondary school teacher for Edinburgh city council, researching Holocaust pedagogies and British Jewish literary responses to the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43340584943705,"sku":"9798765104842","price":187.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/DNbPobXtwl9798765104842.webp?v=1779444877","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/philip-roth-and-the-body-jewishness-gender-and-race-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}