Jewish literature : a very short introduction / Ilan Stavans.
"An in-depth, thorough exploration of modern Jewish literature from 1492 to the 21st century, rotating around the concept of "aterritoriality" to appreciate the diasporic journey Jews have embarked on across geographic and linguistic spheres from 1492 to the present. At the centre of...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
682. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Very Short Introductions |
| Summary: | "An in-depth, thorough exploration of modern Jewish literature from 1492 to the 21st century, rotating around the concept of "aterritoriality" to appreciate the diasporic journey Jews have embarked on across geographic and linguistic spheres from 1492 to the present. At the centre of it are canonical figures like Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Bruno Schulz, Anne Frank, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Jacobo Timerman, Moacyr Scliar, and Susan Sontag. Unlike the output of other national literatures, Jewish literature doesn't have a fixed address. As a result, its practitioners are at once insiders and outsiders"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 150 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190076976 0190076984 0190076992 019007700X 9780190076979 9780190076986 9780190076993 9780190077006 |