Modernity, culture, and 'the Jew'
By: edited by Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus.
Contributors: Cheyette, Bryan.; Marcus, Laura.
Series: Contraversions; Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Jews -- Identity; Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750-  -- Congresses; Jews -- History -- 1789-1945 -- Congresses; Jews -- History -- 1945-  -- Congresses; Jews -- Historiography -- Congresses; Civilization, Modern -- Jewish influences -- Congresses; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography -- Congresses
Description: "This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues addressed include psychoanalysis and gender, literary antisemitism, (post)modernity and 'the Jew', and the memory of the Holocaust. A Foreword by Homi Bhabha and an Afterword by Paul Gilroy place these concerns in an extended multicultural and postcolonial context."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published: Cambridge, England : Polity Press, 1998.
Revised versions of papers originally presented at a University of London conference organized by the Centre for English Studies.