Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature

The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Isabelle Hesse, Roberto del Valle Alcalá, 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. 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-11
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474269339

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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.