1st Edition
Literary Resistance Jewish Humor as a Defense Mechanism
Explanatory Note; PART I; Introduction: Is There Such a Thing As Jewish Humor?; Chapter 1. Jewish Humor As a Coping Strategy; Chapter 2. A Historical-Literary Overview of Jewish Humor; PART II; Introduction: First and Second-Generation of Jewish-American Writers; Chapter 3. Twentieth and Twenty-first Century American Jewish Fiction; Conclusion
Biography
Gustavo Sánchez Canales is an associate professor of English Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). His research focuses on Contemporary Jewish-American Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature and Philosophy, Literature and Religion, Children's Literature, English Language Teaching, and Academic and Creative Writing. He has co-authored books on children's literature (2025) and academic writing (2025), and co-edited a manual on bilingual education (2015). His primary scholarly work centers on contemporary Jewish-American literature, with dozens of articles and book chapters on writers including Shalom Auslander, Saul Bellow, Michael Chabon, Bernard Malamud, Cynthia Ozick, Chaim Potok, and Philip Roth.
