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Author:   Axel Stähler (University of Kent, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138010550

ISBN 10:   1138010553
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   17 July 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Foreword Jonathan Wilson Introduction 1. Introduction: Jewish Literature(s) in English? Axel Stähler 2. On Being a Jewish Critic Bryan Cheyette The Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s) 3. Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary Jamie S. Scott 4. ""What’s More Important than a Gesture?"" The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness Sigrun Meinig Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces in-Between – Jewish Writing from the Anglophone Diaspora(s) America 5. Literary Symptomology and Jewish Fiction: Envy; or, The New Yiddish in America Emily Miller Budick 6. Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America Ranen Omer-Sherman 7. Fifty Ways to See your Lover: Vision and Revision in the Fiction of Amy Bloom David Brauner Britain 8. Otherness and Affiliation in Anglo--Jewish Poetry Peter Lawson 9. Diasporic Voices? Second-Generation Jewish Authors in Britain Oliver Groß ‘Postcolonia’ 10. Postcolonialism and the Irish Jewish Experience: The Novels of David Marcus and Ronit Lentin Catherine Hezser 11. Jewish Writers and Postcolonial Choices in South Africa Margaret Lenta 12. Jewish Literature in Australia Elisa Morera de la Vall 13. Contemporary Jewish Plays on the Canadian Stage Albert-Reiner Glaap 14. The Anglo--Israeli Writer: Double Identities in Troubled Times Karen Alkalay-Gut The ‘Loquation’ of Jewish Culture 15. Voices of Identity: Language in Jewish--American Literature Pascal Fischer 16. The Words to Say It: The Loss of Language and Power in Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Envy; or Yiddish in America’ Miriam Sivan 17. Ricki Lake in Tel-Aviv: The Alternative of Orly Castel-Bloom’s Hebrew--English Karen Grumberg. Anglophone Jewish Writers"

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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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