Jewish Fantasy Worldwide - Trends in Speculative Stories From Australia to Chile

Informationen zum Autor Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College. Klappentext Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy: Post-Holocaust Soviet tales; Yiddish science fiction from the 1980s; Mizrahi novels from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; and new themes and subgenres from Brazil to Morocco. This essay collection explores Jewish speculative fiction from every continent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand Gillian Polack and Bettina Burger Chapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang Chapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars Steven B. Frankel Chapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna's Music Video ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ Katharina Hadassah Wendl Chapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism Valerie Estelle Frankel Chapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America Ilana Goldstein Chapter 7. Leybl Botwinik's Di Geheyme Shlikhes: A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel Stephen M. Cohen Chapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction Martine Mussies Chapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan's Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities Michaela Weiss Chapter 10. Contra Torrentem: Leo Perutz's By Night Under the Stone Bridge and Central European Fantasy Cameron Barrows Chapter 11. Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem Julie A. Hawkins Chapter 12. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness: The Cases of Ilya Varshavsky and Gennady Gor Marat Grinberg Chaper 13. Seeking a Promised Land: Estrangement and Belonging in Queer Jewish Speculative Fiction Akiva Hoffman Chapter 14. Why are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative? Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and Valerie Estelle Frankel Chapter 15. Writing the Jewish Heroine's Journey Evonne Marzouk and Patti McCarthy Chapter 16. Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction Judy Klass ...

Product details

• Authors: Valerie Estelle Frankel
• Assisted by: Valerie Estelle Frankel (Editor), Frankel Valerie Estelle (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781666926606
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-660-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities