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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature (Paperback)
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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines
twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist
ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably
the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward
Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic
world that has justified domination, critics have considered the
Jewish people to be complicit with orientalism because of the
Zionist movement. However, the Jews of Europe have themselves been
caught between East and West -both marginalized as the "Orientals"
of Europe and connected to the Middle East through their own
political and cultural ties. As a result, European-Jewish writers
have had to negotiate the problematic confluence of antisemitic and
orientalist discourse. Laurel Plapp traces this trend in utopic
visions of Jewish-Muslim relations that criticized the early
Zionist movement; in post-Holocaust depictions of coalition between
Jews and African slaves in the Caribbean revolutions; and finally,
in explorations of diasporic, transnational Jewish identity after
the founding of Israel. Above all, Plapp proposes that Jewish
studies and postcolonial studies have much in common by identifying
ways in which Jewish writers have allied themselves with colonized
and exilic peoples throughout the world.
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