Anglophone Jewish Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Stähler, Axel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

English has become the major language of contemporary Jewish literature. This book shows the transnational character of that literature and how traditional viewpoints need to be reassessed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134121427
• Artikelnr.: 43070673

Autorenporträt

Axel Stähler teaches English and American literature at the University of Bonn, Germany and is project coordinator of the international research project Fundamentalism and Literature at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the Anglophone and German-speaking Jewish diasporas.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Jonathan Wilson Introduction 1. Introduction: Jewish Literature(s)
in English? Axel Stähler 2. On Being a Jewish Critic Bryan Cheyette The
Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s) 3. Postcolonial
Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary Jamie S. Scott 4. "What's More Important
than a Gesture?" The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness Sigrun Meinig
Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces in-Between - Jewish
Writing from the Anglophone Diaspora(s) America 5. Literary Symptomology
and Jewish Fiction: Envy; or, The New Yiddish in America Emily Miller
Budick 6. Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony
Kushner's Angels in America Ranen Omer-Sherman 7. Fifty Ways to See your
Lover: Vision and Revision in the Fiction of Amy Bloom David Brauner
Britain 8. Otherness and Affiliation in Anglo--Jewish Poetry Peter Lawson
9. Diasporic Voices? Second-Generation Jewish Authors in Britain Oliver
Groß 'Postcolonia' 10. Postcolonialism and the Irish Jewish Experience: The
Novels of David Marcus and Ronit Lentin Catherine Hezser 11. Jewish Writers
and Postcolonial Choices in South Africa Margaret Lenta 12. Jewish
Literature in Australia Elisa Morera de la Vall 13. Contemporary Jewish
Plays on the Canadian Stage Albert-Reiner Glaap 14. The Anglo--Israeli
Writer: Double Identities in Troubled Times Karen Alkalay-Gut The
'Loquation' of Jewish Culture 15. Voices of Identity: Language in
Jewish--American Literature Pascal Fischer 16. The Words to Say It: The
Loss of Language and Power in Cynthia Ozick's 'Envy; or Yiddish in America
' Miriam Sivan 17. Ricki Lake in Tel-Aviv: The Alternative of Orly
Castel-Bloom's Hebrew--English Karen Grumberg. Anglophone Jewish Writers