A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring
attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media,
the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the
physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of
materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern
Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and
artists’ books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and
design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and
distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The
long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval
and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual
canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature’s objecthood is
felt not only in the physical qualities of books—bindings,
covers, typography, illustrations—but also through the ways in
which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary
expression.
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