Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781032135069 / Miękka / 2023 / 232 str.

Israel) Sicher Efraim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Opis

This radical critique, and comparative study, of postmodern Jewish culture, offers innovative readings of major contemporary writers in Israel and the English-speaking diaspora.

Recenzje

"Through finely tuned close readings, Sicher probes deeply into Jewish identity in a postmodern world. Both learned and caring, it should be welcomed by all as a serious exploration of some of the major challenges facing Jews today."   Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Indiana University, USA

"… sensitive and provocative readings of contemporary Jewish fiction. In examining spatial and temporal sites of identity-formation from a global and transnational perspective, this important study presents an original approach to the construction of Jewishness in the literary imagination."  Victoria Aarons, Trinity University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction  1. All You Need is Love?  2. From Auschwitz to Yavneh  3. Body and Nation  4. Transgression and Return  5. Destroying Israel  6. The Afterlife of Love  Coda  Bibliography

O autorze

Efraim Sicher is a professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. In 2020 he was a research fellow at the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published widely in modern Jewish studies and has edited the short stories of Isaak Babel in Russian, English, and Hebrew. Among his most recent books are Babel in Context (2012); Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012); Race Color Identity: Discourses of the "Jew" in the Twenty-First Century (as editor, 2013); The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (2017); and Reenvisioning Jewish Identities: Reflections on Contemporary Culture in Israel and the Diaspora (2021).