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Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction
This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together essays covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. Moreover, it complicates all these terms, emphasising the porousness between different national traditions and moving beyond traditional definitions of Jewishness. For the sake of structural clarity, the volume is divided into three parts - 'American Jewish Fiction', 'British Jewish Fiction' and 'International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction' - but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work. The Edinburgh Companion is a paradigm-changing event, and nothing in Jewish literary studies that follows can fail to pay close attention to it.
Key Features:
Highlights the rich diversity of the field and identifies its key themes, including immigration, the Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, antisemitism and Zionism
Analyses the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situates them in historical context
Discusses the place of Anglophone Jewish fiction in relation to critical debates concerning transatlanticism and transnationalism; ethnicity and identity politics; postcolonial studies, feminist studies and Jewish Studies.
With a preface by Mark Shechner, the volume contains 28 essays by contributors including Vicki Aarons (Trinity University, Texas), Debra Shostak (Wooster College, Ohio), Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia), Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University, Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), Sue Vice (University of Sheffield), Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), Ruth Gilbert (University of Winchester), Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) andSandra Singer (University of Guelph).
David Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at The University of Reading.
Axel Stähler is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsPreface: Jews Have Legs, Mark Shechner
Introduction: Modern Jewish Fiction, David Brauner and Axel Stähler
I: American Jewish Fiction
1: Pioneering Women Writers and the Deghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction, Lori Harrison-Kahan2: Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow, Catherine Morley3: The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction, Victoria Aarons4: 'Are you kidding me?': Black Humour in the Work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield, and Bruce Jay Friedman, David Gooblar5: American Jewish Life Writing, Illness, and the Ethics of Innovation, Aimee Pozorski6: From Feminist to Housewife and Back Again: Orthodoxy and Modernity in American Jewish Women's Writing, Rachel Harris7: Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigré Jewish Writers from the USSR, Sasha Senderovich8: History on a Personal Note: Postwar American Jewish Short Stories, David Brauner 9: Disappointed Believers? The Jewish Question Mark in Eisner's 'A Contract with God', Sarah Lightman10: The Holocaust in American Jewish Fiction, Jennifer Lemberg11: Representing the Holocaust in Third-Generation American Jewish Writers, Monica Osborne 12: Marginal Writers; or, Jews Who Aren't, Debra Shostak
II: British Jewish Fiction
13: The Postwar 'New Wave' of British Jewish Writing, Efraim Sicher14: Jewish Emigré and Refugee Writers in Britain, David Herman15: Jewish Exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons, Phyllis Lassner16: Jewish, Half-Jewish, Jew-ish: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary British Jewish Literature, Ruth Gilbert17: Life Writing and the East End, Devorah Baum18: 'Almost too good to be true': Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Pre-Lebanon, Axel Stähler19: The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon, Axel Stähler20: British Jewish Holocaust Fiction, Sue Vice21: Reading Matters: 'Marginal' British Jewish Writers, Beate Neumeier
III: International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction
22: Jewish Writing in Canada, Ira Nadel23: South African Jewish Writers, Linda Weinhouse24: Repairing Cracked Heirlooms: South African Jewish Literary Memory of Lithuania and Latvia, Claudia B. Braude25: Australian Jewish Fiction: A Bibliographical Survey, Serge Liberman26: 'Migrant' Jewish Writers in the Anglophone Diaspora, Sandra Singer27: Jewish Novels of the Spanish Civil War, Emily Robins Sharpe28: Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, Shaul Bassi;
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