American Jewish Writer Philip Roth's Identity Exploration and Historical Writing

American Jewish Writer Philip Roth's Identity Exploration and Historical Writing

by Su Xin

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This book takes the contemporary American Jewish writer Philip Roth as the research object, and takes Roth's identity exploration and historical writing as the internal main line. Based on the principles of continuity and evolution, taking into account the chronological order and the theme of the creation of his works, it focuses on Roth's three main identities: Jewish ethnic identity, American national identity, and writer. Writing identity; combing the starting point of Roth's identity exploration, analyzing the identity anxiety in the works to the initial exploration of Jewish identity, American national identity and the writer's writing identity, arguing that these identities are not separated, but have logically opposing relationships, and are connected and intertwined in multiple ways. ; Explore the manifestations of Roth's identity exploration in different historical spaces, mainly tracking Roth's changing oppositional contexts in the United States, Israel, Europe, etc., Outlining the breakpoints and intersections of Roth's creation, reflecting the formation and self-correction of Roth's identity concept; showing a more specific Jewish nation history and the broader panorama of American history, pointing out that Roth has shifted from focusing on a single, concrete, and determined national identity, to acknowledging the openness and uncertainty of identity in public arenas, and finally returning to the wounded identity in history, emphasizing that identity is not only the construction of the narrator, but also a complex historical product. Finally, it summarizes the multiple cultural implications of Ross's historical writing and emphasizes the significance and value of Ross's historical writing.

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