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. 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.>

Table des matières

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Dr. Isabelle Hesse, Isabelle Hesse, Roberto Del Valle Alcala
• Collaboration: Peter Boxall (Editeur), Bryan Cheyette (Editeur)
• Edition: Bloomsbury Academic
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781474269339
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-6933-9
• Pages: 240
• Thèmes: New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing; New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Europe, HISTORY / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, c 1940 to c 1949, 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, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form