THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN JOSEPH SKIBELL’S "A BLESSING ON THE MOON"
THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN JOSEPH SKIBELL’S "A BLESSING ON THE MOON"

Summary/Abstract: Identity represents one of the most relevant themes used in literature throughout time. The self and the quest for an individual’s identity has represented the topic of different novels, particularly those written by authors coming from different ethnic backgrounds and whose identities and individuality have been often questioned. There are several authors who have used the theme of identity and other themes related to it in their writngs andsome of these authors make use of a genre entitled Magic Realism, a genre in which the magic is perceived as something part of the real, where the supernatural is a normal occurence in the everyday reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the theme of identity in the novel written by the Jewish-American writer Joseph Skibell, novel entitled "A Blessing on the Moon" and to see the way in which Skibell tackles the problem of the Jewish identity, while using Magic Realism in order to create the image of a Jewish identity scattered and destroyed by the trauma of the Holocaust.

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