Xia-Lin Zhang

Cultural Appropriation and Historical Recursion: On the Systemic Violence of “Indian Night” in Nemesis

Philip Roth’s Nemesis uses the 1944 polio epidemic in Newark to explore the repeated violence and exclusion in American society. This thesis argues that the “Indian Night” celebration at the Indian Hill summer camp is not only a background event in the novel. Roth uses this scene to show how violence from the past can...