Philip Roth and the Body : Jewishness, Gender, and Race

difference that he repeatedly ties to Jewishness. At the same time, this study highlights how Roth's novels, through his focus on Jewish men, risk the reification of America's sexist social structures as they intersect with the very racism Roth seeks to undermine."Philip Roth and the Body"'s examination of how bodies in Roth's fiction are entities troubled within his prose renews conversations about whose bodies matter, both in Roth studies and in the context of America's racial and social politics. [Publisher's Text]