SOURCE: Baris, Sharon Deykin. “Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's ‘The Mourners.’” Studies in American Jewish Literature 11, no. 1 (spring 1992): 45-61.
In the following essay, Baris discusses the ways in which “The Mourners” highlights collective responsibility in the plight of others.
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