Ghetto Realism—and Beyond

Lori Harrison-Kahan
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By focusing on the reception of Yekl, Abraham Cahan’s 1896 novel of immigrant life in New York, this chapter considers the turn-of-the-twentieth-century controversy surrounding depictions of Jews in ghetto literature, arguing that this debate illuminates not only the challenges of ethno-racial representation and self-representation but also the slipperiness of realism itself. The chapter also posits a more inclusive interpretation of Jewish American realism by demonstrating the importance of an overlooked late nineteenth-century realist writer, Emma Wolf. It explores how Wolf’s novels Other Things Being Equal (1892) and Heirs of Yesterday (1900), which focus on experiences of Jewish families in San Francisco during the Progressive Era, offer important alternatives to the New York–centric ghetto genre, expanding the parameters of Jewish American literature in terms of region, class, gender, and religion.
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贫民窟的现实主义及其他
通过关注亚伯拉罕·卡恩(Abraham Cahan) 1896年关于纽约移民生活的小说《耶克尔》(Yekl)的接受情况,本章考虑了20世纪初围绕犹太区文学中犹太人描写的争议,认为这场辩论不仅阐明了民族-种族表现和自我表现的挑战,而且还阐明了现实主义本身的不稳定性。本章还通过展示一位被忽视的19世纪晚期现实主义作家艾玛·沃尔夫的重要性,对犹太美国现实主义进行了更具包容性的解释。它探讨了沃尔夫的小说《其他事物都是平等的》(1892)和《昨天的继承人》(1900),这两部小说关注的是进步时代旧金山犹太家庭的经历,为以纽约为中心的贫民窟类型提供了重要的选择,扩大了美国犹太文学在地区、阶级、性别和宗教方面的参数。
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