Jewish Literary Criticism

I guess I've never put this obvious thought down: there is a critical Jewish literary approach which is akin to that of feminist or queer theory. This means that within a large corpus of books, there is a Jewish thread that needs to be teased out, analyzed, explored. Back in the '50s and '60s, critics said that the Jewish novel focuses or should focus on identity, and so perhaps with criticism. It's easier to do this with "Jewish literature" than with other literary traditions; but, this is why there are critical works on Jewish characters in books written by non-Jews, or on books which focus primarily on non-Jews. Here, identity formation might not be as crucial--we might be more concerned with anti-Semitic tropes, a la Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby. Something similar happens in reading these works that happens when a woman reads books written by men which focus on female characters: my girlfriend has said so of Anna Karenina, and then she cites Cixous's postulation of "feminine writing" which can be sometimes applied to males. Is there a "Jewish writing" which applies to goyim?

To my mind, this doesn't really have anything to do with a canon. Ha! Addendum: this can affect the canon in the same way as feminist and queer theory: discovering and reclaiming less popular but significant works. This actually intersects with feminist and queer theory, because we have women like Irena Klepfisz editing collections such as Found Treasures, or a rediscovery of Myron Brinig, the gay midwesterner.