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The elsewhere : on belonging at a near distance : reading literary memoir from Europe and the Levant /
"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."--Publisher description |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 397 pages) : 1 map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-378) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0299208931 9780299208936 |