Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature
Canadian-Jewish literature, Greenstein argues, is characterized by the sense of homelessness and exile which dominated the writings of the father of Jewish-Canadian literature, A.M. Klein. Greenstein finds the paradigm for this sense of loss in Henry Kreisel's short story, "The Almost Meeting." Using the theme of this story as a base, Greenstein describes how the Jewish-Canadian writer is divided between life in Canada and a rich European past - between life in the New World and the strong...
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Caught in a solitude that is neither English nor French, Jewish-Canadian writers wrestle with marginality and exile as they search for status and recognition in Canadian society. Using the strategies for understanding marginality developed by such post-structuralist writers as Harold Bloom and Jacques Derrida, Michael Greenstein discusses this "third solitude" through an analysis of the works of Jewish-Canadian writers including Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Adele Wiseman, Eli Mandel, Jack Ludwig, Norman Levine, Monique Bosco, and Matt Cohen.
