Diasporas of the Mind - Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

Informationen zum Autor Bryan Cheyette is professor of modern literature at the University of Reading. He lives in London. Klappentext Focuses on a range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon! others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. This title illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries. Zusammenfassung Focuses on a range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon! others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. This title illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Cheyette, Cheyette Bryan
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9780300093186
• ISBN: 978-0-300-09318-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Literary studies: postcolonial literature