TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lazarus,Joyce Block
TI  - Strangers and sojourners: Jewish identity in contemporary francophone fiction 
SN  - 9780820440200
U1  - 843.9140989 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - French fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
KW  - French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Jews -- France -- Intellectual life
KW  - Jewish fiction -- History and criticism
KW  - Judaism and literature -- France
KW  - Jews in literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - French fiction
N2  - "Strangers and Sojourners demonstrates that there is a distinctive French Jewish literature today, characterized not by its authors' common nationality, but by their identification with a Jewish collectivity and with French language and culture. The six authors in this study, Memmi, Wiesel, Schwarz-Bart, Perec, Modiano, and Jacques, all writing after Auschwitz, engage in a quest for a modern Jewish consciousness.Torn between the opposing pulls of Judaism and French cultural values, they exhibit their tension and ambivalent feelings through the themes and structure of their fiction, and in their ambiguous relationship with the French language."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -