The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780748646159 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 456 str.

Brauner; Dr David Brauner; Axel Staehler

Opis

This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction.
The volume is divided into 3 parts - American Jewish Fiction; British Jewish Fiction; and International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction - but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: Jews Have Legs, Mark Shechner; Introduction: Modern Jewish Fiction, David Brauner and Axel Stähler; I: American Jewish Fiction; 1: Pioneering Women Writers and the Deghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction, Lori Harrison-Kahan; 2: Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow, Catherine Morley; 3: The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction, Victoria Aarons; 4: ‘Are you kidding me?’: Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield, and Bruce Jay Friedman, David Gooblar; 5: American Jewish Life Writing, Illness, and the Ethics of Innovation, Aimee Pozorski; 6: From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women’s Writing, Rachel Harris; 7: Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigré Jewish Writers from the USSR, Sasha Senderovich; 8: History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories, David Brauner; 9: Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner’s ‘A Contract with God’, Sarah Lightman; 10: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, Jennifer Lemberg; 11: Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers, Monica Osborne; 12: Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren’t, Debra Shostak; II: British Jewish Fiction; 13: The Postwar ‘New Wave’ of British Jewish Writing, Efraim Sicher; 14: Jewish Emigré and Refugee Writers in Britain, David Herman; 15: Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons, Phyllis Lassner; 16: Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature, Ruth Gilbert; 17: Life Writing and the East End, Devorah Baum; 18: ‘Almost too good to be true’: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon, Axel Stähler; 19: The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon, Axel Stähler; 20: British Jewish Holocaust Fiction, Sue Vice; 21: Reading Matters: ‘Marginal’ British Jewish Writers, Beate Neumeier; III: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction; 22: Jewish Writing in Canada, Ira Nadel; 23: South African Jewish Writers, Linda Weinhouse; 24: Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia, Claudia B. Braude; 25: Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey, Serge Liberman; 26: ‘Migrant’ Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora, Sandra Singer; 27: Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War, Emily Robins Sharpe; 28: Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, Shaul Bassi; List of Contributors; Bibliography