The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature - The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

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.>

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Isabelle (University of York Hesse, Dr. Isabelle (University of York Hesse, Isabelle Hesse
• Assisted by: Bryan Cheyette (Editor), Martin Paul Eve (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781350044357
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04435-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing; New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Europa, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Holocaust, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren