Full Description
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTube videos, and fanfiction. Essays explore topics ranging from the ancient Jewish kingdom of Khazaria to modern university classes and the revival of Yiddish to the breadth of LGBTQ+ representation. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.
Contents
Chapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand
Gillian Polack and Bettina Burger
Chapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes
Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang
Chapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars
Steven B. Frankel
Chapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna's Music Video ???????
Katharina Hadassah Wendl
Chapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism
Valerie Estelle Frankel
Chapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America
Ilana Goldstein
Chapter 7. Leybl Botwinik's Di Geheyme Shlikhes: A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel
Stephen M. Cohen
Chapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction
Martine Mussies
Chapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan's Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities
Michaela Weiss
Chapter 10. Contra T
