This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Con... more This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) is far greater than the construction of selfhood. Its play on the confession creates a transformative space between fiction and fact so as to examine how its own generic "being-before-the-law," in Jacques Derrida's words, is connected with questions of free speech and censorship grounded in postwar Israeli-American relations.
This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Con... more This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) is far greater than the construction of selfhood. Its play on the confession creates a transformative space between fiction and fact so as to examine how its own generic "being-before-the-law," in Jacques Derrida's words, is connected with questions of free speech and censorship grounded in postwar Israeli-American relations.
This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Con... more This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) is far greater than the construction of selfhood. Its play on the confession creates a transformative space between fiction and fact so as to examine how its own generic "being-before-the-law," in Jacques Derrida's words, is connected with questions of free speech and censorship grounded in postwar Israeli-American relations.
This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Con... more This article, unlike previous Roth scholarship, argues that the scope of Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) is far greater than the construction of selfhood. Its play on the confession creates a transformative space between fiction and fact so as to examine how its own generic "being-before-the-law," in Jacques Derrida's words, is connected with questions of free speech and censorship grounded in postwar Israeli-American relations.
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