Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts

Ezra Mendelsohn editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:10th Apr '97

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: XII: Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts cover

Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" languages. The essays also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their "search for a useable past." From essays on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's novels, this book provides a strong overview of contemporary themes in Jewish literary studies.

ISBN: 9780195112030

Dimensions: 241mm x 165mm x 29mm

Weight: 750g

400 pages