The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
Subtitle: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 11, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781474269339
Description: "Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Following the dynamics of this turn, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of postcolonialism and world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)