Identity and Conflict in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock

Philip Roth is a Jewish American writer whose fiction has always been about Jewish identity and the conflicts that it involves. In Operation Shylock he treats this subjetct through a supposedly autobiographical structure that incorporates elements that exist outsider the text, such as newspaper’s in...

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Autor: Sinay, Isadora Goldberg
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14373
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14373
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Literatura judaica
Literatura norte-americana
Identidade
Jewish Literature
North-American Literature
Identity
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Resumo:Philip Roth is a Jewish American writer whose fiction has always been about Jewish identity and the conflicts that it involves. In Operation Shylock he treats this subjetct through a supposedly autobiographical structure that incorporates elements that exist outsider the text, such as newspaper’s interviews and columns. The present article analyses the structure chosen and how it’s used by the author to write about the conflicts and paradoxes of contemporary Jewish identity.