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"This book draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman and his theory of the 'conceptual Jew' to argue that Philip Roth's fiction is united by a shared interest in how anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jewish difference - centered around the body - inform American Jewish identities. It also contends that Roth resists American white nationalism by transforming the body's ejaculations, excretions, secretions and expulsions into symbols of difference that he ties to Jewishness. Finally, it shows how Roth, through his focus on Jewish men, risks the reification of sexist social structures that intersect with the very racism he seeks to undermine"--