Roth and Celebrity

Aimee L. Pozorski

sept. 2012 · Lexington Books

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Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.

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Aimee Pozorski is associate professor of English at Central Connecticut State University where she teaches contemporary American literature and trauma theory. She is the author of Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) which appeared with Continuum in 2011 and currently has a second book under contract with Continuum entitled, Falling After 9-11: American Art and Literature in Crisis. She has co-edited with Miriam Jaffe-Foger the special issue of Philip Roth Studies entitled, “Mourning Zuckerman.” Her essays have appeared in such journals as The Hemingway Review, Paideuma, Philip Roth Studies, MELUS, PostModern Culture, and ANQ. She currently serves as President of the Philip Roth Society.