Queer Jewish Strangers in American Popular Culture: Life Between Assimilation and Otherness

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Amy Tziporah Karp

Queer Jewish Strangers in American Popular Culture

Life Between Assimilation and Otherness

Amy Tziporah Karp

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Lexington Books
31 January 2024

Gender studies, gender groups; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Gay & Lesbian studies; Jewish studies

Jewish American Queer Strangers: Ashkenazi Jewish American Women and Non-Binary Queer Figuresin Contemporary Popular Culture by Amy Tziporah Karp explores LGBTQIA+ Jewish American identity in the United States and the queer Jewish stranger figures who live in between incorporation and estrangement. She establishes that despite the near-ubiquitous portrayal of Jewish American assimilation as a finished project completed in the wake of World War II in academic disciplines and throughout popular culture, many LGBTQIA+ Jewish figures in contemporary popular culture inhabit stranger positionalities. In these stranger spaces, characters are forced to either perpetually attempt to assimilate or inhabit this interstitial stranger identity that is often viewed as a nowhere, or homeless, space. Those who pursue assimilating endlessly try to fit in to no avail, such as Showtime's popular The L Word's Jenny Schecter who is ultimately killed off on the show, possibly murdered by her LGBTQIA+ community of friends. Karp shows that those who attempt to make a home in a stranger positionality align themselves with other estranged and othered peoples, such as characters throughout Sarah Schulman's novels, and that this constitutes an ethical stance against the ways in which assimilation often inadvertently supports the workings of violent hegemonies in the United States.

By: Amy Tziporah Karp
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781793604194
ISBN 10: 1793604193
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 31 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1: Transparent and the Jewish Queer Stranger Chapter 2: The L Word's Jenny Schecter Problem: The Life and Death of a Queer Jewish Woman Stranger Chapter 3: Writing a Strange Way Home: Sarah Schulman and the Possibilities in the Failures of Jewish American Queer Women's Assimilation Chapter 4: Conclusion Bibliography About the Author

Amy Tziporah Karp is associate professor of English at the City University of New York, Kingsborough.