Introduction
Ⅰ. Cynthia Ozick's Life and Literary Career
Ⅱ. Cynthia Ozick in the Critical Context
A. Cynthia Ozick Criticism in the United States
B. Cynthia Ozick Studies in China
Ⅲ. The Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Present Study
Chapter One Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and Jewishness
Ⅰ. Jewish American Literature as Part of Contemporary American
Literature
A. Jews and Jewish Culture in Multicultural America
B. The Shaping of Jewish American Literature
Ⅱ. Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and Jewishness
Ⅲ. Jewishness in Cynthia Ozick's Fiction
A. Ozick's Definition of Jewishness
B. Jewishness in Ozick's Fiction
Chapter Two Jewishness and "Literature as Idol"
Ⅰ. "A Jewish Writer": an Oxymoron
Ⅱ. Idolatry and Imagination
A. Heteroglossia in "The Pagan Rabbi"
B. Polyphonic Narrative in "The Pagan Rabbi"
Ⅲ. Idolatry and Language Worship
A. Language's Meaningfulness
B. Language's Peril and Destructiveness
C. Ozick's Corona: Reading in a Non-idolatrous Manner
D. Lars's Redemption
Chapter Three Jewishness and History Representation
Ⅰ. Fictional Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Memories
A. Jewish Cultural Crisis
B. Construction and Deconstruction of the Past in Ruth
Puttermesser
Ⅱ. Midrashic Representation of the Holocaust
A. Midrashic Mode, a Nonoppositional Approach
B. Midrashic Representation of Historicity and Figuration in The
Shawl
Chapter Four Jewishness and Feminine Representation
Ⅰ. Cynthia Ozick's Tension as a Jewish Woman Writer in
Diaspora
A. Prejudice in Ozick's Educational and Professional Life
B. Orthodox Judaic Gender Law Prohibiting Women/ll
C. The Negative Reception of Women's Writing
Ⅱ. Female Protagonists and Orthodox Judaic Gender Law
A. "Levitation": Marital Oppression
B. "Puttermesser and Xanthippe": Professional Oppression
Ⅲ. Jewish Mothering in the Holocaust
A. Mothering Stereotypes
B. Essentialism and Social Constructionisrn
C. Rosa in "The Shawl"
Ⅳ. "Eros of Ideas": Feminist Mending of Orthodox Judaic Gender Law
A. "Eros of ideas"
B. Imagination for the Female Protagonists: "Conjuring" and "Purifying"
Chapter Five Jewishness and Literary Narrative
Ⅰ. Heteroglossia and Polyphonic Narrative
Ⅱ Metafictional Intrusion Narrative
Ⅲ. Writing Degree Zero
Ⅳ. Intertextuality
A. Adaptation
B. Allusion
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgements
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