Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 1
Introduction: J. J. Steinfeld: Considering the Writer Sandra Singer 3
J. J. Steinfeld: Interview with Sandra Singer (May 2016) Sandra Singer J. J. Steinfeld 19
In His Mother's Image: Analysis of Second Generation Sons in Short Stories by J. J. Steinfeld Raina L. Shults 57
Kafka's Call: Fugue States and Fractured Chronotopes in J. J. Steinfeld's Fiction Michael Greenstein 82
Upsetting the Cradle: J. J. Steinfeld's Tragicomic Truth-Teller in Our Hero in the Cradle of Confederation Richard Lemm 104
Situational Exposition: Elisions and Inclusions in J. J. Steinfeld's Word Burials Mark Sampson 137
From Page to Stage, or Several Characters in Search of a Genre Ellen S. Jaffe 157
Permutations of the Body: Ekphrasis in J. J. Steinfeld's Short Fiction and Poetry Sandra Singer 191
The Holocaust Witness as Absurdist: J. J. Steinfeld's Ironic Ire George Elliott Clarke 221
Time-Grammar and Second-Order Witnessing: On J. J. Steinfeld's Identity Dreams and Memory Sounds Shane Neilson 240
Epilogue: Anton Chekhov in Charlottetown: An Allegory of Writerly Displacement Sandra Singer 264
Bibliography: A Checklist of Selected Work By J. J. Steinfeld to 2017 Sandra Singer 279
Contributor Notes 290
