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The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)

The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature By Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)

The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature by Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)

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An exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. It examines how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences.

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The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism by Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)

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.

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The book's strength lies in Hesse's selection of a wide variety of fascinating literary texts, and in her ambitious engagement with theorists of trauma and post-colonial studies. While the discourse of trauma has had traction within Jewish academic discourse since the Holocaust, Hesse goes to great pains in order to situate the Jews within a post-colonial context ... Hesse successfully addresses stylistic and thematic renderings of the image of the Jew since 1945, as empowered, oppressive, and human, as opposed to simply a symbol of marginality and victimization. * Religion and Literature *
Nevertheless, Hesse's book is an invigorating and deeply provocative meditation on how Jews have been conceptualised in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. This is a signi?cant and important work for Jewish studies that confronts di?cult and uncomfortable questions surrounding the ambivalent position the conceptual Jew still occupies in Jewish and non-Jewish imaginations. -- Joshua Lander * Modern Jewish Studies *

About Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)

Isabelle Hesse is Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Table 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

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NLS9781350044357
9781350044357
1350044350
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism by Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)
Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)
New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017-08-24
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