The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
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The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature

The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

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The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature

The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

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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.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474269353
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Holocaust History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period
  8. 2. The Complexities of Victimhood: Nazism and Zionism in German-Jewish Literature
  9. 3. Rewriting the Foundations of Israel: Shulamith Hareven’s Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman’s See Under: Love
  10. 4. Minority, Exile and Belonging in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay and Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood
  11. 5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism, the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflictin Mizrahi Literature
  12. 6. ‘Within the Bounds of the Permissible’: Palestinians in a Jewish National Space
  13. 7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers and Civilians in Palestinian Literature
  14. 8. ‘We Are Not All Jews’: Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index