To what extent can the leaky, porous bodies in Philip Roth's fiction be read as symbols of resistance against anti-Semitism, white supremacy, and racism?Philip Roth and the Body questions the symbolic functionality of the corporeal in Roth's main works of fiction, particularly as sites of gender and racial identification for Roth's protagonists. In his recurrent employment of the abject, Roth throws into doubt the body as a coherent, stable entity, undermi...