The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

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"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0299208907

ISBN13:9780299208905

Release Date:June 2005

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:412 Pages

Weight:1.52 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality

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