Dialogues of Generations in Post-Holocaust Jewish American Fiction

A crucial question of Jewish American literature is how the two traditions can be integrated. Succeeding texts reflecting on identity and literature can thus be read as a cross-generational dialogue trying to address these issues. This paper focuses on four pieces of post-Holocaust Jewish American fiction participating in that dialogue. The examples : Eli, the Fanatic by Philip Roth; Envy, or Yiddish in America by Cynthia Ozick; Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman; and The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.