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Postmodern love in the contemporary Jewish imagination : negotiating spaces and identities / Efraim Sicher

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Routledge Jewish studies seriesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 231 pages)ISBN:
  • 9781003229582
  • 9781000539073
  • 9781000539097
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781032135045. | 9781032135069. | Erscheint auch als: Postmodern love in the contemporary Jewish imagination. Druck-Ausgabe Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022DDC classification:
  • 892.4/3509 23/eng/20220103
LOC classification:
  • PJ5029
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Contents:
All you need is love? -- From Auschwitz to Yavneh -- Body and nation -- Transgression and return -- Destroying Israel -- The afterlife of love.
Summary: "Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader"--PPN: PPN: 1919910743Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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