The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-6933-9 (ISBN)
Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the ‘colonial’ turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature.
Isabelle Hesse is Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia.
1. Introduction: From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period
2. The Complexities of Victimhood: The Holocaust and Israel in German-Jewish Literature
3. Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Israel: Shulamith Hareven’s Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman’s See Under: Love
4. Minority, Exile, and Belonging in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay and Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood
5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature
6. ‘Within the Bounds of the Permissible’: Palestinians in a Jewish National Space
7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers, and Civilians in Palestinian Literature
8. Conclusion: ‘We are not all Jews’: Resisting Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.02.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4742-6933-8 / 1474269338 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4742-6933-9 / 9781474269339 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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