Passages of Belonging : Interpreting Jewish Literatures / Natasha Gordinsky, Carola Hilfrich, Susanne Zepp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordinsky, Natasha, Editor.

Hilfrich, Carola, Editor.

Zepp, Susanne, Editor.

Series:

Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ; 7.

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a moving landscape of 20th and 20st century literatures, Jewish and other. It brings together contemporary writers and literary scholars who collectively map these intensities onto a bodily word world in transit and textures of habitable, readable space as passage.Works by Hélène Cixous, Cécile Wajsbrot, Alex Epstein, Almog Behar, and Svetlana Boym explore sites made up of layers of passages, taking configurations of sayability and readability as forms, poetic and political, of inhabiting the material world. The contributions by literary scholars explore the theoretical potential of a mapping of such sites in studies of modalities of belonging and unbelonging in modern and contemporary works of literature.The volume collects a collaborative investigation of the exigencies and potentialities of sense of place and belonging through literature, Jewish and other. It offers a literary perspective on current debates in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, human geography, architectural theory, and translation studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Hilfrich, Carola / Gordinsky, Natasha / Zepp, Susanne

Part I

Ail! - Il ne faut pas le dire - / Oy! - You Mustn't Say That / Cixous, Hélène

The Depository of Zugehör: Ail! and the Soundscape of Belonging / Hilfrich, Carola

Vous trouverez ce livre ... / You'll find this book ... / Wajsbrot, Cécile

"Vous trouverez ce livre ..." - Cécile Wajsbrot and the Art of Belonging / Bung, Stephanie

קיצורי דרך הביתה, חרסינה מזרח גרמנית / Shortcuts Home; East German China / Epstein, Alex

Smuggled Belongings: Alex Epstein's Fiction of Immigration / Gordinsky, Natasha

אַנַא מִן אַלְ-יַהוּד / Ana min al-yahoud - I'm one of the Jews / Behar, Almog

"The Same Words, Perhaps a Bit More Broken": Multiple Belongings in Almog Behar's "Ana Min al-Yahoud" / Kenan, Yael

Part II

French Scholem, or: Scholem's Purloined Letter / Ginsburg, Ruth

Belonging Destabilized: Anton Shammas's Arabesques / Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith

Derrida's Appurtenances: A Footnote on Language and Belonging / Liska, Vivian

De-essentialized Belonging: Poetics of the Self in Joyce Mansour and Clarice Lispector / Zepp, Susanne

Form and Language: Alejandra Pizarnik's Spatial Poetics of Un/Belonging / Telaak, Anastasia

Architectures of Absence: Nicole Krauss's Novel Great House / Dickow, Sonja

Part III

Introduction to Svetlana Boym's "Remembering Forgetting" / Gessen, Masha

Remembering Forgetting. Tale of a Refugee Camp / Boym, Svetlana

Svetlana Boym Remembers Forgetting / Senderovich, Sasha

Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9783110525519

3110525518

9783110523492

3110523493

OCLC:

1100453848