Anglophone Jewish Literature

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Axel Stähler
Routledge, 14 սեպ, 2007 թ. - 332 էջ

Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the new literatures in English. Rather, Jewish literary production in English has conventionally been classified as ‘hyphenated’ and has therefore not yet been subjected as such to the scrutiny of scholars of literary or cultural history.

The collection of essays addresses this lack and initiates the scholarly exploration of transnational and transcultural Anglophone Jewish literature as one of the New English Literatures. Without attempting to impose what would seem to be a misguided conceptual unity on the many-facetted field of Anglophone Jewish literature, the book is based on a plurality of theoretical frameworks. Alert to the productive friction between these discourses, which it aims to elicit, it confronts Jewish literary studies with postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and other contemporary theoretical frameworks.

Featuring contributions from among the best-known scholars in the fields of British and American Jewish literature, including Bryan Cheyette and Emily Miller Budick, this collection transcends borders of both nations and academic disciplines and takes into account cultural and historical affinities and differences of the Anglophone diaspora which have contributed to the formation and development of the English-language segment of Jewish literature.

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The Jewish imaginary in nonJewish Anglophone literatures
49
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces inbetween Jewish writing from the Anglophone diasporas America
77
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces inbetween Jewish writing from the Anglophone diasporas Britain
121
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces inbetween Jewish writing from the Anglophone diasporas postcolonia
141
The loquation of Jewish culture
209
Anglophone Jewish writers
249
Bibliography
255
Index
279
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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.

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