Identity and Conflict in Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-3053.11.20.112-130Keywords:
Jewish Literature, North-American Literature, IdentityAbstract
Philip Roth is a Jewish American writer whose fiction has always been about Jewish identity and the conflicts that it involves. In Operation Shylock he treats this subjetct through a supposedly autobiographical structure that incorporates elements that exist outsider the text, such as newspaper’s interviews and columns. The present article analyses the structure chosen and how it’s used by the author to write about the conflicts and paradoxes of contemporary Jewish identity.
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