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Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature

The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvIsabelle Hesse,Bryan Cheyette

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Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-08-24
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350044357

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1. Introduction: From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period2. The Complexities of Victimhood: The Holocaust and Israel in German-Jewish Literature3. Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Israel: Shulamith Hareven’s Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman’s See Under: Love4. Minority, Exile, and Belonging in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay and Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature6. ‘Within the Bounds of the Permissible’: Palestinians in a Jewish National Space7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers, and Civilians in Palestinian Literature8. Conclusion: ‘We are not all Jews’: Resisting Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan LiteratureBibliographyIndex

The book’s strength lies in Hesse’s selection of a wide variety of fascinating literary texts, and in her ambitious engagement with theorists of trauma and post-colonial studies. While the discourse of trauma has had traction within Jewish academic discourse since the Holocaust, Hesse goes to great pains in order to situate the Jews within a post-colonial context … Hesse successfully addresses stylistic and thematic renderings of the image of the Jew since 1945, as empowered, oppressive, and human, as opposed to simply a symbol of marginality and victimization.