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 provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the jew as the litmus test of multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse examine the jew as a cultural construction distinct from the Jewishness of literary characters in novels by, among others, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Caryl Philips, and Zadie Smith, as well as...
In the Western literary tradition, the jew has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. ...
