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Under Postcolonial Eyes : Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing /

In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "...

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Autor principal: Sicher, Efraim
Otros Autores: Weinhouse, Linda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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