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""Like preeminent philosopher Judith Butler, Joshua Lander argues in Philip Roth and the Body that bodies indeed matter. By attentively reading Roth's complicated and vexed bodies in particular, Lander's work shows how reading Roth with an eye toward embodiment elicits a deeper sense of humanity. Complicating current debates about Roth's representations of gender, Jewishness, and racial difference, Philip Roth and the Body understands Roth's corpus (itself an impressive body of work committed to redefining the work of the body) as fundamentally ethical in the ways it destabilizes and resists the fascist logic of white supremacy, and, in so doing, calls into question our own relationships with bodies that matter."" --Aimee Pozorski, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, USA, and former co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies

Like preeminent philosopher Judith Butler, Joshua Lander argues in Philip Roth and the Body that bodies indeed matter. By attentively reading Roth’s complicated and vexed bodies in particular, Lander’s work shows how reading Roth with an eye toward embodiment elicits a deeper sense of humanity. Complicating current debates about Roth’s representations of gender, Jewishness, and racial difference, Philip Roth and the Body understands Roth’s corpus (itself an impressive body of work committed to redefining the work of the body) as fundamentally ethical in the ways it destabilizes and resists the fascist logic of white supremacy, and, in so doing, calls into question our own relationships with bodies that matter. * Aimee Pozorski, Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, USA, and former co-executive editor of Philip Roth Studies *

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Joshua Lander is a writer and independent researcher based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His research and writings focus on Jewish identity in British and American fiction. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow in 2019, which focused on the novels of Philip Roth and the Jewish body.

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