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Under Postcolonial Eyes - Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing (Hardcover)
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Under Postcolonial Eyes - Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Antisemitism
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In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure
of ethnic exclusion and social isolation-the wanderer, the
scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial
outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British
writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of
multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse examine
the "jew" as a cultural construction distinct from the "Jewishness"
of literary characters in novels by, among others, Salman Rushdie,
Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Caryl Philips, and Zadie
Smith, as well as contemporary art and film. Here the image of the
"jew" emerges in all its ambivalence, from postcolonial migrant and
modern everyman to more traditional representations of the
conspirator and malefactor. The multicultural discourses of ethnic
and racial hybridity reflect dissolution of national and personal
identities, yet the search for transnational, cultural forms
conceals both the acceptance of marginal South Asian, Caribbean,
and Jewish voices as well as the danger of resurgent antisemitic
tropes. Innovative in its contextualization of the "jew" in the
multiculturalism debate in contemporary Britain, Under Postcolonial
Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary British Writing analyzes
the narrative of identities in a globalized culture and offers new
interpretations of postmodern classics.
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