肖飚编著的《在流散空间凸现道德意识——论辛西娅·欧芝克小说中的犹太性》以欧芝克通过流散空间凸现道德意识从而在其小说中呈现出的犹太性为重点，关注她在流散背景下，消解其犹太人、女性和作家多重身份之间的对立的文学尝试。本书采用辩证视角，将历史、文化和理论研究与文本分析相结合，选取欧芝克的六篇小说——四篇短篇、一篇中篇、一篇长篇作为范本，代表其不同阶段、不同篇幅的小说创作。

Introduction/1

Ⅰ. Cynthia Ozick's Life and Literary Career/1

Ⅱ. Cynthia Ozick in the Critical Context/5

A. Cynthia Ozick Criticism in the United States/5

B. Cynthia Ozick Studies in China/23

Ⅲ. The Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Present Study/25

Chapter One Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and Jewishness/35

Ⅰ. Jewish American Literature as Part of Contemporary American

Literature/35

A. Jews and Jewish Culture in Multicultural America/35

B. The Shaping of Jewish American Literature/38

Ⅱ. Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and Jewishness/42

Ⅲ. Jewishness in Cynthia Ozick's Fiction/49

A. Ozick's Definition of Jewishness/50

B. Jewishness in Ozick's Fiction/54

Chapter Two Jewishness and "Literature as Idol"/56

Ⅰ. "A Jewish Writer": an Oxymoron/58

Ⅱ. Idolatry and Imagination/59

A. Heteroglossia in "The Pagan Rabbi"/61

B. Polyphonic Narrative in "The Pagan Rabbi"/63

Ⅲ. Idolatry and Language Worship/73

A. Language's Meaningfulness/74

B. Language's Peril and Destructiveness/77

C. Ozick's Corona: Reading in a Non-idolatrous Manner/79

D. Lars's Redemption/83

Chapter Three Jewishness and History Representation/85

Ⅰ. Fictional Construction and Deconstruction of Jewish Memories/86

A. Jewish Cultural Crisis/86

B. Construction and Deconstruction of the Past in Ruth

Puttermesser/89

Ⅱ. Midrashic Representation of the Holocaust/95

A. Midrashic Mode, a Nonoppositional Approach/95

B. Midrashic Representation of Historicity and Figuration in The

Shawl/99

Chapter Four Jewishness and Feminine Representation/115

Ⅰ. Cynthia Ozick's Tension as a Jewish Woman Writer in

Diaspora/116

A. Prejudice in Ozick's Educational and Professional Life/116

B. Orthodox Judaic Gender Law Prohibiting Women/ll8

C. The Negative Reception of Women's Writing/120

Ⅱ. Female Protagonists and Orthodox Judaic Gender Law/123

A. "Levitation": Marital Oppression/124

B. "Puttermesser and Xanthippe": Professional Oppression/128

Ⅲ. Jewish Mothering in the Holocaust/133

A. Mothering Stereotypes/133

B. Essentialism and Social Constructionisrn/134

C. Rosa in "The Shawl"/136

Ⅳ. "Eros of Ideas": Feminist Mending of Orthodox Judaic Gender Law/145

A. "Eros of ideas"/146

B. Imagination for the Female Protagonists: "Conjuring" and "Purifying"/148

Chapter Five Jewishness and Literary Narrative/160

Ⅰ. Heteroglossia and Polyphonic Narrative/163

Ⅱ Metafictional Intrusion Narrative/165

Ⅲ. Writing Degree Zero/167

Ⅳ. Intertextuality/169

A. Adaptation/170

B. Allusion/172

Conclusion/177

Works Cited/184

Acknowledgements/! 93