Writing Jewish : Contemporary British-Jewish Literature

Gilbert, Ruth

Palgrave Macmillan（2013/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 177 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230275560
• DDC分類 820.9892409045

Full Description

British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today.

By interrogating myths and stereotypes and looking at themes of remembering and forgetting, belonging and alienation, location and dislocation, Ruth Gilbert examines how these writers identify the particularity of their difference - while acknowledging that this difference is neither fixed nor final, but always open to re-interpretation.

Contents

1. Preface: 'No Place Like Home'
2. British-Jewish Writing Today
3. 'Two Thousand Years of Memory': Memory and British-Jewish Identity
4. 'An Impossible Task': Remembering the Holocaust
5. 'Rootsie-tootsie': (Re)locating Jews in Contemporary Britain
6. Belonging and Division: British-Jewish Reflections on Israel
7. Barmitzvahs and Balls: British-Jewish Masculinities
8. 'A Vortex of Contradictory Forces': British-Jewish Women
9. Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jewish: Contemporary Identities
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.