Location of Culture in Saul Bellow and I. B. Singer: A Comparative Statement on the Victim and Shosha

About the Book

Ever since the end of the Cuban crisis, cultural studies have gained significant status in American and Western universities. In India, however, the cultural studies programs were somehow interlinked with interdisciplinary studies in English and vernacular literatures. Dr. Pradnyashailee Sawai decided to write a monograph on two major Jewish novels, The Victim by Saul Bellow and Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Interestingly, these two prominent Jewish writers demonstrate two very different perspectives on Jewish life in America and generally in Europe after the Holocaust. While Bellow is extremely sensitive to the nuances of everyday life in USA, Singer delves deep into the traces of a bygone era.

About the Author

Dr. Pradnyashailee Bhagwan Sawai, MA, MPhil, NET, PhD in English and MBA (human resource), is working as assistant professor in the department of English at Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati, Maharashtra, India. She has deep interest in research and has published twenty research articles in international journals. She has attended and presented papers in various national and international conferences. Her areas of interest are Jewish American literature and Indian English Literature. She is pursuing her second PhD in the field of management science.