An Interpretation of A Study of Jewishness Cynthia Ozick

Abstract

A Study of Jewishness in Cynthia Ozick’s Fiction (2021) is a masterpiece of Chinese research circles on Cynthia Ozick, and the latest contribution made by Chinese scholars to the study of American Jewish literature. This book presents an exhaustive overview of Cynthia Ozick’s studies at home and abroad, with emphasis on the Jewishness in Ozick’s fiction and it follows the principles of Ethical Literary Criticism in analyzing how Ozick inherits and develops the Jewishness in American Jewish fiction and its literary presentation. The author’s ‘Midrash’ of Cynthia Ozick shows great international perspective and nuanced understanding and empathy. There are three impressive features of the book Firstly, it is rich in materials with a large number of first-hand foreign research materials, and its content is decorous. The monograph is a comprehensive, systematic, and cutting-edge research in this field, which starts a new situation in the study of Ozick; Secondly, it focuses on Jewishness and its artistic expression in Ozick’s fiction by combining historical, cultural, and theoretical research with textual analysis, revealing the rich connotation and internal unity of the works, and demonstrating the researchers’ profound and thorough understanding of the research object. Thirdly, it features dialectical thinking. It dialectically analyzes writers and works from multiple perspectives such as feminist criticism new historicism criticism, postmodern narrative research, and cultural research, and makes horizontal and vertical comparisons in the historical context. The monograph demonstrates well the author’s penetrating dialectical thinking.