Philip Roth

Question 1

Plot Against America: Alvin

Answer 1

Philip’s cousin–runs to Canada to fight in war, loses leg. Stump breaks down; prosthetics. Discuss trauma; also fiction/reality. Trying to make a prosthetic of fiction.

Question 2

Plot Against America: American minorities

Answer 2

The Jews are taken to the South and Midwest in order to be Americanized. As key sites in the history of violence against Native Americans and African Americans, we return to the cyclical trauma of American violence against minorities.