Author(s): Axel StA¤hler
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 304
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Part I: Introduction......Page 16
1 Introduction – Jewish literature(s) in English?: Anglophone Jewish writing and the ‘loquation’ of culture......Page 18
2 On being a Jewish critic......Page 48
Part II: The Jewish imaginary in non-Jewish Anglophone literature(s)......Page 64
3 Postcolonial discourse and the Jewish imaginary......Page 66
4 ‘What’s more important than a gesture?’: Jewishness and cultural performativity......Page 80
Part III: Changing centres, changing peripheries and spaces in-between: Jewish writing from the Anglophone diaspora(s) – America......Page 92
5 Literary symptomology and Jewish fiction: ‘Envy; or, The New Yiddish in America’......Page 94
6 Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of vulnerable identities in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America......Page 108
7 Fifty ways to see your lover: Vision and revision in the fiction of Amy Bloom......Page 123
Part IV: Changing centres, changing peripheries and spaces in-between: Jewish writing from the Anglophone diaspora(s) – Britain......Page 136
8 Otherness and affiliation in Anglo-Jewish poetry......Page 138
9 Diasporic voices?: Second-generation Jewish authors in Britain......Page 148
Part V: Changing centres, changing peripheries and spaces in-between: Jewish writing from the Anglophone diaspora(s) – postcolonia......Page 156
10 Postcolonialism and the Irish-Jewish experience: The novels of David Marcus and Ronit Lentin......Page 158
11 Jewish writers and postcolonial choices in South Africa......Page 176
12 Jewish literature in Australia......Page 189
13 Contemporary Jewish Canadian plays on the Canadian stage......Page 201
Part VI: The ‘loquation’ of Jewish culture......Page 224
15 Voices of identity: Language in Jewish-American literature......Page 226
16 The words to say it: The loss of language and power in Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Envy; or, Yiddish in America’......Page 239
17 Ricki Lake in Tel Aviv: The alternative of Orly Castel-Bloom’s Hebrew-English......Page 249
Anglophone Jewish writers......Page 264
Bibliography......Page 270
Index......Page 294
