The impossible Jew: identity and the reconstruction of Jewish American literary history

Introduction: The school of criticism I wouldn't be caught dead in : a polemic on theorizing the field

1. Toward a critical semitism : on not answering the Jewish question in literary studies

2. Against the dialectic of nation : Abraham Cahan and desire's spectral Jew

3. The negative desire of Jewish representation; or, why were the New York intellectuals Jewish?

4. Why Jews aren't normal : the unrepresentable future of Philip Roth's The counterlife

5. 9/11's stealthy Jews : Jonathan Safran Foer and the irrepresentation of identity

Conclusion: Minority report.