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Book SynopsisProvides overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This title highlights the wealth of diversity in this field, identifying and exploring key themes including immigration, Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, anti Semitism and Zionism. It is discussed in relation to theoretical frameworks.
Table of ContentsPart I: American Jewish Fiction; 1. Pioneering Women Writers and the Deghettoisation 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 Harris; 7. Soviet Jews, Re-Imagined: Anglophone Emigre 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; Part II: British Jewish Fiction; 13. The Postwar 'New Wave' of British Jewish Writing; Efraim Sicher; 14. Jewish Emigre 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 Stahler; 19. The Writing on the Wall: Israel in British Jewish Fiction, Post-Lebanon; Axel Stahler; 20. British Jewish Holocaust Fiction; Sue Vice; 21. Reading Matters: 'Marginal' British Jewish Writers; Beate Neumeier; Part 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 Memory of Lithuania 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, and Christians in Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie; Shaul Bassi.
