The Edinburgh companion to modern Jewish fiction / edited by David Brauner and Axel Stähler.

Other author Brauner, David, 1968-
Other author Stähler, Axel.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxviii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
English fiction--Jewish authors. --History and criticism.
American fiction--Jewish authors. --History and criticism.
English fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
English fiction--21st century. --History and criticism.
Jewish fiction--History and criticism.

Contents pt. I. American Jewish fiction -- 1. Pioneering women writers and the de-ghettoisation of early American Jewish fiction / Lori Harrison-Kahan -- 2. Sensibilities of estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow / Catherine Morley -- 3. The making of American Jewish identities in postwar American fiction / Victoria Aarons -- 4. "Are you kidding me?' Black humour in the work of Joseph Heller, Stanley Elkin, Wallace Markfield and Bruce Jay Friedman / David Gooblar -- 5. American Jewish life writing, illness and the ethics of innovation / Aimee Pozorski -- 6. From feminist to housewife and back again: orthodoxy and modernity in American Jewish women's writing / Rachel S. Harris -- 7. Soviet Jews, re-imagined: anglophone émigré Jewish writers from the USSR / Sasha Senderovich -- 8. History on a personal note: postwar American Jewish short stories / David Brauner -- 9. Disappointed believers? The Jewish question mark in Eisner's "A contract with God" / Sarah Lightman -- 10. The Holocaust in American Jewish fiction / Jennifer Lemberg -- 11. Representing the Holocaust in third-generation American Jewish writers / Monica Osborne -- 12. Marginal writers; or, Jews who aren't / Debra Shostak.
Contents pt. II. British Jewish fiction -- 13. The postwar 'New wave' of British Jewish writing / Efraim Sicher -- 14. Jewish émigré and refugee writers in Britain / David Herman -- 15. Jewish exile in Englishness: Eva Tucker and Natasha Solomons / Phyllis Lassner -- 16. Jewish, half-Jewish, Jew-ish: negotiating identities in contemporary British Jewish literature / Ruth Gilbert -- 17. Life writing and the East End / Devorah Baum -- 18. 'Almost too good to be true': Israel in British Jewish fiction, pre-Lebanon / Axel Stähler -- 19. The writing on the wall: Israel in British Jewish fiction, post-Lebanon / Axel Stähler -- 20. British Jewish Holocast fiction / Sue Vice -- 21. Reading matters / Beate Neumeier.
Contents pt. III. International and transnational anglophone Jewish fiction -- 22. Jewish writing in Canada / Ira Nadel -- 23. South African Jewish writers / Linda Weinhouse -- 24. Repairing cracked heirlooms: South African Jewish literary memoriy of Lithania and Latvia / Claudia B. Braude -- 25. Australian Jewish fiction: a bibliographical survey / Serge Liberman -- 26. 'Migrant' Jewish writers in the anglophone diaspora / Sandra Singer -- 27. Jewish novels of the Spanish Civil War / Emily Robins Sharpe -- 28. Mooristan and Palimpstine: Jews, Moors, Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie / Shaul Bassi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-414) and indexes.
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LCCN 2015431353
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