{"product_id":"jewish-fantasy-worldwide-trends-in-speculative-stories-from-australia-to-chile-9781666926606","title":"Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy. The essays in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Chile, French Canada, and the Middle East. The authors consider various media including fiction, film, Youtube videos, and fan sites. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese elucidations map out the true limits of the Jewish diaspora, which are also the limits of our imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ilan Stavans, Amherst College and author of Talmudic Void: An Interstellar Interpretation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGillian Polack and Bettina Burger \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenri-Simon Blanc-Hoang \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven B. Frankel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna’s Music Video אורייתא\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatharina Hadassah Wendl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValerie Estelle Frankel \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlana Goldstein \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Leybl Botwinik’s Di Geheyme Shlikhes: A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen M. Cohen \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartine Mussies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichaela Weiss \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Contra Torrentem: Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge and Central European Fantasy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCameron Barrows \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulie A. Hawkins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness: The Cases of Ilya Varshavsky and Gennady Gor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarat Grinberg \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChaper 13. Seeking a Promised Land: Estrangement and Belonging in Queer Jewish Speculative Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAkiva Hoffman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. Why are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMara W. Cohen Ioannides and Valerie Estelle Frankel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. Writing the Jewish Heroine’s Journey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvonne Marzouk and Patti McCarthy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudy Klass\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042024915287,"sku":"9781666926606","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666926606.jpg?v=1750952680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-fantasy-worldwide-trends-in-speculative-stories-from-australia-to-chile-9781666926606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}