ISBN:
0300093187
,
9780300093186
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 306 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Diasporas of the mind
Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Jewish literature History and criticism 21st century
;
Postcolonialism in literature
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Diaspora
Abstract:
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he examines - among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark - as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures
Description / Table of Contents:
Diasporas of the mindDiaspora and colonialism : Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and the cosmopolitan JewDiaspora and the Holocaust : Primo Levi, Jean Amery and the art of returning the blowDiaspora, 'race' and redemption : Muriel Spark and the trauma of AfricaThe American diaspora: Philip Roth and the national turnDiaspora and postcolonialism: Salman Rushdie and the JewsDiaspora and postethnicity.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [265]-295
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