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The politics of Jewishness in contemporary world literature : the holocaust, Zionism and colonialism /

"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 representation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hesse, Isabelle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloombury Publishing Plc., 2016.
Colección:New horizons in contemporary writing.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover ; 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 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, the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature.
  • 6 'Within the bounds of the permissible': Palestinians in a Jewish National Space7 Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers and Civilians in Palestinian Literature; 8 'We are not all Jews': Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature; Notes; References; Index.