Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination : Negotiating Spaces and Identities

• Autore: Sicher Efraim (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.)
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : Routledge, , 2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Disciplina: 892.43509
• Soggetto topico: Israeli fiction - History and criticism; American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction 1. All You Need is Love?2. From Auschwitz to Yavneh 3. Body and Nation4. Transgression and Return 5. Destroying Israel 6. The Afterlife of LoveCodaBibliography
• Sommario/riassunto: Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader.
• Titolo autorizzato: Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination
• ISBN: 1-00-322958-1; 1-000-53907-5; 1-000-53909-1; 1-003-22958-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910908992703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Jewish studies series.