The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism

✍ Scribed by Isabelle Hesse

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 240
Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 of Contents

Introduction: From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period
The Complexities of Victimhood: The Holocaust and Israel in German-Jewish Literature
Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Israel: Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman's See Under: Love
Minority, Exile, and Belonging in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood
Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature
'Within the Bounds of the Permissible': Palestinians in a Jewish National Space
Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers, and Civilians in Palestinian Literature
Conclusion: 'We are not all Jews': Resisting Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature
Bibliography
Index

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