Cynthia Ozick –A Jewish Voice

  • Dr.D.L. Jaisy

Abstract

Cynthia Ozick, a Jewish American writer craves for immortality of  Jewish identity and Jewish Literature in America. Jewish American writers have generally achieved literary success by avoiding what is historically Jewish. Ozicks Fiction asserts that the present destroys the past by bringing the past into a living relationship or conflict with the present. To Ozick, memory is the root of Jewish life, but the modern cultural developments have threatened the continuity of that memory. Her sense of Jewish cultural crisis motivates her work as she attempts to recreate collective memories through her fiction. The Jewish writers maintain an ethnic exoticism that is attractive to American audience and thus they have lost their own Jewish identity. Ozicks works are a call to cultural memory and are themselves hold to threads of tradition and it focuses on the continuity of Jewish tradition in the contemporary world

Published
2019-11-15
Section
Articles