New PDF release: Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

By Josh Lambert

ISBN-10: 1479876437

ISBN-13: 9781479876433

Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer publication Award provided via the organization for Jewish Studies

Jews have performed an indispensable position within the historical past of obscenity in the US. for many of the 20 th century, Jewish marketers and editors led the cost opposed to obscenity legislation. Jewish attorneys battled literary censorship even if their non-Jewish opposite numbers refused to take action, they usually received court docket judgements in desire of texts including Ulysses, A Howl, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Tropic of Cancer. Jewish literary critics have supplied essentially the most influential court testimony on behalf of freedom of expression.

The anti-Semitic stereotype of the lascivious Jew has made many historians hesitant to attract an instantaneous hyperlink among Jewishness and obscenity. In Unclean Lips, Josh Lambert addresses the Jewishness of members in obscenity controversies within the U.S. at once, exploring the transformative roles performed through a number of missed figures within the improvement of contemporary and postmodern American culture.

The variety of yankee Jewry signifies that there's no unmarried cause of Jews' interventions during this box. Rejecting generalizations, this bookoffers case stories that pair cultural histories with shut readings of either contested texts and trial transcripts to bare the ways that particular engagements with obscenity mattered to specific American Jews at discrete ancient moments.

Reading American tradition from Theodore Dreiser and Henry Miller to Curb Your Enthusiasm and FCC v. Fox, Unclean Lips analyzes the variable old and cultural components that account for the principal position Jews have performed within the struggles over obscenity and censorship within the glossy United States.

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