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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Notes on contributors
Introduction Jewish literatures in English? Anglophone
On being a Jewish critic 33
Jewish literature in Australia 174
Postcolonial discourse and the Jewish imaginary 51
Jewishness
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces
Envy or
Diasporic voices? Secondgeneration Jewish authors
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces
Jewish writers and postcolonial choices in South Africa 161
double identities in troubled times
language in JewishAmerican literature
the loss of language and power
the alternative of Orly Castel
Anglophone Jewish writers 249

thresholds of vulnerable identities in Tony
vision and revision in
Changing centres changing peripheries and spaces
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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