Mordecai and Him : Relationality, Canadian Jewish Identity and Yanofsky’s “Really, Really, Really Unauthorized” Biography
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Mordecai and Him : Relationality, Canadian Jewish Identity and Yanofsky’s “Really, Really, Really Unauthorized” Biography
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| Abstract |
The author describes Joel Yanofsky's 2003 biography of Montreal writer Mordecai Richler (1931-2001), titled Mordecai & Me: An Appreciation of a Kind, "the most unusual" and "the most subversive" of all of Richler's biographies. Despite the implication in the title, "Mordecai & Me", Yanofsky barely knew Richler personally. The author examines Yanofsky's text as a "relational" memoir, "constructed upon a dual portrait of both its author and its subject, one that broadens into a wider inquiry into issues of kinship, community and identity within the Canadian Jewish context."
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Kanade, di Goldene Medine? : Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives sur la litterature et la culture juives canadiennes
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Leiden, The Netherlands & Boston, MA
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Brill
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2019
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49-60
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en
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978-90-04-37940-4
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Ramon, Alex. “Mordecai and Him : Relationality, Canadian Jewish Identity and Yanofsky’s ‘Really, Really, Really Unauthorized’ Biography.” In Kanade, Di Goldene Medine? : Perspectives on Canadian-Jewish Literature and Culture / Perspectives Sur La Litterature et La Culture Juives Canadiennes, edited by Krzysztof Majer, Justyna Fruzińska, Józef Kwaterko, and Norman Ravvin, 49–60. Leiden, The Netherlands & Boston, MA: Brill, 2019.
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