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Author:   Dr Isabelle Hesse (University of York, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781350044357

ISBN 10:   1350044350
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period 2. The Complexities of Victimhood: The Holocaust and Israel in German-Jewish Literature 3. Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Israel: Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman's See Under: Love 4. Minority, Exile, and Belonging in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood 5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature 6. `Within the Bounds of the Permissible': Palestinians in a Jewish National Space 7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers, and Civilians in Palestinian Literature 8. Conclusion: `We are not all Jews': Resisting Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature Bibliography Index

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The book's strength lies in Hesse's selection of a wide variety of fascinating literary texts, and in her ambitious engagement with theorists of trauma and post-colonial studies. While the discourse of trauma has had traction within Jewish academic discourse since the Holocaust, Hesse goes to great pains in order to situate the Jews within a post-colonial context ... Hesse successfully addresses stylistic and thematic renderings of the image of the Jew since 1945, as empowered, oppressive, and human, as opposed to simply a symbol of marginality and victimization. * Religion and Literature *

The book's strength lies in Hesse's selection of a wide variety of fascinating literary texts, and in her ambitious engagement with theorists of trauma and post-colonial studies. While the discourse of trauma has had traction within Jewish academic discourse since the Holocaust, Hesse goes to great pains in order to situate the Jews within a post-colonial context ... Hesse successfully addresses stylistic and thematic renderings of the image of the Jew since 1945, as empowered, oppressive, and human, as opposed to simply a symbol of marginality and victimization. * Religion and Literature * Nevertheless, Hesse's book is an invigorating and deeply provocative meditation on how Jews have been conceptualised in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel. This is a signi?cant and important work for Jewish studies that confronts di?cult and uncomfortable questions surrounding the ambivalent position the conceptual Jew still occupies in Jewish and non-Jewish imaginations. * Modern Jewish Studies *

Author Information

Isabelle Hesse is Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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