The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781399508834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 456 str.

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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