Jews Among the Indians: The Fantasy of Indigenization in Mordecai Richler's and Michael Chabon's Northern Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sarah Phillips Casteel
Contemporary Literature, vol. 50, no. 4, Winter, 2009, pp. 775-810
Description
Discusses the fantasy of indigenization in Solomon Gursky Was Here and The Yiddish Policemen's Union; and looks at how Mordecai Richler is able to realize the dream of indigenization, where Michael Chabon's Alaskan Jews ultimately are forced to confront the failure of that dream.