Anglophone Jewish Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415414647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str.

Sthler Axel; Axel St'ahler

Opis

Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the literatures in English. This book, based on a plurality of theoretical frameworks, addresses this lack and initiates the scholarly exploration of transnational and transcultural Anglophone Jewish literature as one of the English literatures.

Spis treści

Foreword Jonathan Wilson  Introduction  1. Introduction: Jewish Literature(s) in English? Axel Stähler  2. On Being a Jewish Critic Bryan Cheyette  The Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s)  3. Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary Jamie S. Scott  4. "What’s More Important than a Gesture?" The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness Sigrun Meinig  Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces in-Between – Jewish Writing from the Anglophone Diaspora(s)  America  5. Literary Symptomology and Jewish Fiction: Envy; or, The New Yiddish in America  Emily Miller Budick  6. Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America  Ranen Omer-Sherman  7. Fifty Ways to See your Lover: Vision and Revision in the Fiction of Amy Bloom David Brauner  Britain  8. Otherness and Affiliation in Anglo--Jewish Poetry Peter Lawson  9. Diasporic Voices? Second-Generation Jewish Authors in Britain Oliver Groß  ‘Postcolonia’  10. Postcolonialism and the Irish Jewish Experience: The Novels of David Marcus and Ronit Lentin Catherine Hezser  11. Jewish Writers and Postcolonial Choices in South Africa Margaret Lenta  12. Jewish Literature in Australia Elisa Morera de la Vall  13. Contemporary Jewish Plays on the Canadian Stage Albert-Reiner Glaap  14. The Anglo--Israeli Writer: Double Identities in Troubled Times Karen Alkalay-Gut  The ‘Loquation’ of Jewish Culture  15. Voices of Identity: Language in Jewish--American Literature Pascal Fischer  16. The Words to Say It: The Loss of Language and Power in Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Envy; or Yiddish in America’ Miriam Sivan  17. Ricki Lake in Tel-Aviv: The Alternative of Orly Castel-Bloom’s Hebrew--English Karen Grumberg. Anglophone Jewish Writers 

O autorze

Axel Stähler teaches English and American literature at the University of Bonn, Germany and is project coordinator of the international research project Fundamentalism and Literature at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the Anglophone and German-speaking Jewish diasporas.