Author: Rasha Saeed Abdullah Badurais

Abstract: This study is an attempt to examine Jonathan Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) that is supposed to represent contemporary moments of Jewish identity in the American context. Scrutinizing identity features of the young generations of Anglophone Jewish fiction from a social and psychological perspectives is a recommended trend This social psychological scrutiny, conducted throughout Breakwell's Identity Process Theory (IPT) (1986), of eliciting contemporary Jewish identity attributes is to be realized through the application of a deconstructive theoretical framework based on a neoreading of Derrida's master conception: différance. It is noticeable that the novel reflects a tendency towards overcoming traumatic moments that hinder communication among the American Jews and between them and other nations.

Keywords: American Jewish identity, communication, différance, Jewish Fiction

Article Info: Received: 02 Jul 2022; Received in revised form: 21 Jul 2022; Accepted: 27 Jul 2022; Available online: 02 Aug 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.74.19