Writing Indians and Jews : metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian literature / Anna Guttman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guttman, Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in literature.

South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism.

South Asian literature (English).

Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.

Indic literature (English).

English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--South Asian authors.

Physical Description:

viii, 209 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Jews and Jewishness loom large in the contemporary South Asian cultural imaginary, both on the subcontinent and in the diaspora. Along with less canonical authors, Writing Indians and Jews examines many of South Asia's most celebrated and best known contemporary writers working in English-Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh-who have placed Jewish characters and themes at the center of recent works. Anna Guttman argues that the work of Indian Jewish writers, complicates the field of postcolonial studies, and her investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literatures as well as understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Book jacket.

Contents:

Jews and Indians: imagining mobile subjects

Terror and the archive: textualizations of (Jewish?) history in contemporary South Asian literature

I would always be the Asian, the Shylock: postcolonial economies of Jewishness

Jewish and Indian: narrating between race, faith, ethnicity and nation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137339676

1137339675

OCLC:

823387500