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Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state.
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
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