12) 1980s, Jewish writings, postmodern literature Flashcards

1
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Name three Jewish authors from the 1980s

A

Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Which two of the Jewish authors won Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Saul Bellow

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The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift

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Bernard Malamud

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The Natural, The Assistant

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5
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Which book is a story of Jewosh emigrant running a grocery store in Brooklyn and who wrote it?

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The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Satan in Goray, The Slave, Enemies, a Love Story

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Philip Roth

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Portnoy’s Complaint, Prague Orgy, I Married a Communist, Everyman

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8
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Alice Walker

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The Color Purple

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9
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Leslie Marmon Silko

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Ceremony, Storyteller

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10
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John Updike

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Rabbit series, The Witches of Eastwick, Gertrude and Claudius, Terrorist

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John Barth

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The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse

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Which 1980s author was a major figure in the Native American Renaissance?

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Leslie Marmon Silko

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Name same of the postmodern authores

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Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Barth

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