ENG250Y1 Lecture : ENG250 - February 27 - Phillip Roth.docx

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Change in identity after world war ii: more focused on ethnicity. It raises questions about us vs. them, old me vs. new me. Philip roth offers a new way to look at these categories and distinctions. He"s writing right before the civil rights movement starts in america. Raises the idea that there is something similar between the blacks and the jews. It points out that even though there isn"t actually anything physically similar they are similar in terms of their being distinct from others. The talk about ethnicity goes hand in hand with the american character. How does the self-made man interact with this ethnic identity. Members of an ethnic group is marked by self-identification and being defined by others as that as well. There is no single type of american identity. They are defined by their language and place of origin. Being american can be defined by temporal terms.

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