Dean Franco
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Franco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Franco |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wake Forest University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Racial Failures of Novel Form
This essay argues that the form of Ralph Ellison's never-completed novel, posthumously published as Three Days before the Shooting . . . (2010), reflects a fundamental quandary for Ellison, namely his inability to reconcile his own faith in an integrative democracy with his commitment to representing Black life, including the Black experience of political erasure. This quandary is heightened by Ellison's professed commitment to the novel form's c…
The Jews Are “The New Jews”
This article explores the place of Jews and Jewishness in a broader American political and cultural discourse of race and racialization. Borrowing methods and analyses from across the field of Critical Race Studies, the article argues that Jewish Studies should shift attention toward Jewishness as a discursive formation in order to understand the significance of iterations of Jewishness that are not directly or wholly about Jews. Beginning with t…
Thinking in Butler
So much has been said about the BDS movement in general, the ASA's boycott resolution in particular, and Judith Butler's advocacy of BDS at large that it seems important to begin this review of Parting Ways by saying what it is not. Parting Ways is not a polemic for boycotts, or even against Israel. It is not a rousing critique of Israeli human rights abuses or international illegality. Parting Ways is not even a sustained investigation into a co…
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers
Book Review| March 01 2013 Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America. By Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Bloomington: Univ. of Indiana Press. 2010. xi, 342 pp. Paper, $28.00; e-book, $22.90.Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. By Myers, Helene. Albany: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00; e…
Race, Rights, and Recognition
Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism.
Affectionate, Anxious, and Perplexed
My impression of the future of Jewish American literature study is necessarily filtered through the hazy thoughts and murky plans for my own future research and writing, though as I write this I see that it correlates somewhat with other scholars' good work currently circulating or forthcoming. I begin with the urge to put all the words in this journal's title in quotation marks, to suggest that each is a starting point for research and writing a…
Re-placing the Border in Ethnic American Literature
In 1856, Emma Lazarus, the Jewish American poet most famous for contributing the epitaph at the base of the Statue of Lib erty, wrote a pastoral poem about Jewish refugees in America titled "In Exile." 1 "In Exile" celebrates the relative refuge found by Russian Jewish immigrants who escaped from the pogroms of Eastern Europe. "Strange faces theirs, wherthrough the Orient sun / Gleams," Lazarus writes. Stranger still, these Jews are not Talmudic …
Thinking in Butler
So much has been said about the BDS movement in general, the ASA's boycott resolution in particular, and Judith Butler's advocacy of BDS at large that it seems important to begin this review of Parting Ways by saying what it is not. Parting Ways is not a polemic for boycotts, or even against Israel. It is not a rousing critique of Israeli human rights abuses or international illegality. Parting Ways is not even a sustained investigation into a co…
Re-placing the Border in Ethnic American Literature
In 1856, Emma Lazarus, the Jewish American poet most famous for contributing the epitaph at the base of the Statue of Lib erty, wrote a pastoral poem about Jewish refugees in America titled "In Exile." 1 "In Exile" celebrates the relative refuge found by Russian Jewish immigrants who escaped from the pogroms of Eastern Europe. "Strange faces theirs, wherthrough the Orient sun / Gleams," Lazarus writes. Stranger still, these Jews are not Talmudic …
Race, Rights, and Recognition
Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of whom have taken unpopular stances on social issues, distancing themselves from the politics and public practice of multiculturalism.
Affectionate, Anxious, and Perplexed
My impression of the future of Jewish American literature study is necessarily filtered through the hazy thoughts and murky plans for my own future research and writing, though as I write this I see that it correlates somewhat with other scholars' good work currently circulating or forthcoming. I begin with the urge to put all the words in this journal's title in quotation marks, to suggest that each is a starting point for research and writing a…
Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers
Book Review| March 01 2013 Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America. By Koltun-Fromm, Ken. Bloomington: Univ. of Indiana Press. 2010. xi, 342 pp. Paper, $28.00; e-book, $22.90.Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. By Myers, Helene. Albany: State Univ. Press of New York. 2011. vii, 239 pp. Cloth, $70.00; e…
Thinking in Butler
So much has been said about the BDS movement in general, the ASA's boycott resolution in particular, and Judith Butler's advocacy of BDS at large that it seems important to begin this review of Parting Ways by saying what it is not. Parting Ways is not a polemic for boycotts, or even against Israel. It is not a rousing critique of Israeli human rights abuses or international illegality. Parting Ways is not even a sustained investigation into a co…
The Jews Are “The New Jews”
This article explores the place of Jews and Jewishness in a broader American political and cultural discourse of race and racialization. Borrowing methods and analyses from across the field of Critical Race Studies, the article argues that Jewish Studies should shift attention toward Jewishness as a discursive formation in order to understand the significance of iterations of Jewishness that are not directly or wholly about Jews. Beginning with t…
The Racial Failures of Novel Form
This essay argues that the form of Ralph Ellison's never-completed novel, posthumously published as Three Days before the Shooting . . . (2010), reflects a fundamental quandary for Ellison, namely his inability to reconcile his own faith in an integrative democracy with his commitment to representing Black life, including the Black experience of political erasure. This quandary is heightened by Ellison's professed commitment to the novel form's c…
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · History (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)