
The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
- 224 pages
- English
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The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period
- 2. The Complexities of Victimhood: Nazism and Zionism in German-Jewish Literature
- 3. Rewriting the Foundations of Israel: Shulamith Harevenās Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossmanās See Under: Love
- 4. Minority, Exile and Belonging in Anita Desaiās Baumgartnerās Bombay and Caryl Phillipsās The Nature of Blood
- 5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism, the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflictin Mizrahi Literature
- 6. āWithin the Bounds of the Permissibleā: Palestinians in a Jewish National Space
- 7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers and Civilians in Palestinian Literature
- 8. āWe Are Not All Jewsā: Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature
- Notes
- References
- Index