Making Masculinity and Unmaking Jewishness

Norman Mailer’s Voice in Wild 90 and Beyond the Law

Authors

  • Sara Jo Cohen Author

Keywords:

masculinity and performance, Jewish identity and assimilation, voice and embodiment, Wild 90, Beyond the Law, ethnic identity and representation, film theory and sound studies

Abstract

A discussion of Mailer’s career, interrelating Mailer’s ethnicity with his corpus of work, with special attention to his cinematic work.

Author Biography

  • Sara Jo Cohen

    Sara Jo Cohen received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Minnesota in 2011. Her dissertation is “Medical Screening: Medical Imag[in]ing, the Body, and the Self.” She currently works as an editorial assistant in the acquisitions department of the University of North Carolina Press.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Articles