Under postcolonial eyes : figuring the "jew" in contemporary British writing / Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sicher, Efraim.

Contributor:

Weinhouse, Linda.

Series:

Studies in antisemitism (Unnumbered)

Studies in antisemitism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Jews in literature.

Postcolonialism--Great Britain.

Postcolonialism.

Judaism and literature--Great Britain.

Judaism and literature.

Postmodernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Efraim Sicher is a professor of English and comparative literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the author of The Holocaust Novel and Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism. Linda Weinhouse is a professor of English and women's studies at the Community College of Baltimore County, Maryland. She has written widely on Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer, and Anita Desai.

Contents:

Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Under Colonial Eyes: Doris Lessing and the Jews; 2. Under Postcolonial Eyes: Baumgartner's Bombay; 3. Hybridity's Children: Andrea Levy, Zadie Smith, and Salman Rushdie; 4. The Color of Shylock: Caryl Phillips; 5. Down Cultural Memory Lane: Ali, Lichtenstein, and Gavron; 6. The Postmodern Jew; 7. Radically Jewish; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283834650

1283834650

9780803245303

0803245300

OCLC:

818851671