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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Efraim Sicher; Linda Weinhouse |
ISBN: | 9780803245037 0803245033 |
OCLC Number: | 785862743 |
Description: | xxx, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Under colonial eyes: Doris Lessing and the jews -- Under Postcolonial eyes: Baumgartner's Bombay -- Hybridity's children: Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, and Salman Rushdie -- The color of Shylock: Caryl Phillips -- Down cultural memory lane: Ali, LIchtenstein, and Gavron -- The postmodern Jew -- Radically Jewish. |
Series Title: | Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered) |
Responsibility: | Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse. |
Abstract:
In the Western literary tradition, the ""jew"" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the ""jew"" as the litmus test of multicultural society.
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