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

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 438 pages) : illustrations Series Edinburgh companions to literature 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 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 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 Summary "WINNER of the Association of Jewish Libraries' Judaica Reference Award. Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction. This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. The volume is divided into 3 parts - American Jewish Fiction; British Jewish Fiction; and International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction - but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work. Key Features. Highlights the rich diversity of the field and identifies its key themes, including immigration, the Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, antisemitism and Zionism Analyses the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situates them in historical context Discusses the place of Anglophone Jewish fiction in relation to critical debates concerning transatlanticism and transnationalism; ethnicity and identity politics; postcolonial studies, feminist studies and Jewish Studies With a preface by Mark Shechner, the volume's contributors include Vicki Aarons (Trinity University, Texas), Debra Shostak (Wooster College, Ohio), Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia), Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University), Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), Sue Vice (University of Sheffield), Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), Ruth Gilbert (University of Winchester), Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) and Sandra Singer (University of Guelph)"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-414) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Reference. American fiction -- Jewish authors English fiction Jewish fiction Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Brauner, David, 1968- editor. Stähler, Axel, editor. ISBN 0748646167 9780748646166 9781474404488 1474404480

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