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A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with
television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying
it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline
Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: will the
Anthropocene have a laugh track? Is it okay to marry your
eighteenth cousin? How different would the world look from outside
the life-frame of the human? What is it like to have an acid trip
in a portapotty? Is it the end . . . of Earth? Of capitalism? Of
television? Throughout Kreuter's sophomore collection, the TV
remote is never far. Shifting Baseline Syndrome is both searching
and searing, veering between satire and sincerity, history and
prophecy, and human and non-human worlds. As these clash
ecstatically with loathing-and with the end looming-Kreuter
demonstrates why we'll keep doing what we've always done: hoping,
for once, that the series finale will be good.
Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish
fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic
lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction
played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral
relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has
the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this
relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that
concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with
heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for
the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed other of the Zionist
project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of
scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl,
Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis.
Throughout the book, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic
heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain
multiple, diasporic voices that resist and write back against
national centres. This work makes an important and original
contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world
literatures.
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