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Postmodern love in the contemporary Jewish imagination : negotiating spaces and identities / Efraim Sicher
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
- Israeli fiction
- American fiction -- 21st century
- Jews in literature
- Judaism and literature -- Israel
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- Israel
- Roman israélien - Histoire et critique
- Roman américain - 21e siècle - Histoire et critique
- Roman américain - Auteurs juifs - Histoire et critique
- Juifs dans la littérature
- Judaïsme et littérature - Israël
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) - Israël
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) - États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE - Jewish Studies
- LITERARY CRITICISM - Jewish
- Jewish literature
- Love - Religious aspects - Judaism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- 892.4/3509 23/eng/20220103
- PJ5029
Contents:
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
All you need is love? -- From Auschwitz to Yavneh -- Body and nation -- Transgression and return -- Destroying Israel -- The afterlife of love.
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