The Construction of Identity in Saul Bellow's and Philip Roth's Major Novels

Lucrarea reprezinta o lucrare de referinta in domeniul studiilor etnice, considerate un fenomen de anvergura in literatura americana contemporana. Prin demersul sau critic, aceasta prezinta modalitati de constructie a identitatii complexe iudeo-americane in lucrarile a 2 scriitori canonici americani, reprezentanti ai celei de-a doua generatii de imigr catre acesti 2 autori, si referire la pareri critice consacrate, cartea de fata surprinde conditia eului in societatea americana in romanul postbelic etnic din perspectiva a 3 concepte: alienare, asimilare etnica si criza ulterioara a identitatii. ? Introduction   After World War II, Jewish-American literature started to shape its own genre and become very popular in the American literary mainstream. Critic Max Schulz considers that this was due to the ?nobility of the state of Israel after the Holocaust... [which] has renewed the Jew?s pride in Jewishness? (5), so that he does not hide it away in exclusively Jewish ghettoes but