The Interwar Family and American Jewish Identity in Clifford Odets'sAwake and Sing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2746563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Krasner (0000-0003-2594-9098, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-30 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jewish Social Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6704 • E-ISSN: 1527-2028 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/jss.2006.13.1.2 |
| OpenAlex | W2077920422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
Clifford Odets's 1935 play Awake and Sing! was one of the earliest American Jewish dramas outside of the Yiddish theater to present a brutally honest portrayal of the American Jewish family. This Depression-era play offered a searing critique of middle-class mores and aspirations while holding up the family as an anchor of support and affection, a safeguard from anomie. This ambivalence reflected Odets's conflicted Jewish identity. His struggle with Jewishness helped him capture the general condition of the Jew in interwar America and informed his transformation of stock characters from the Yiddish stage into nuanced, thoroughly Americanized archetypes, many of whom continue to populate both stage and screen
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Genealogy · Identity (music · Interwar period · Jewish identity · Judaism · Sociology · World War II · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2015 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |