Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the Jew in Contemporary British Writing

by Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse

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In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation--the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "jew" as the litmus test of multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse examine the "jew" as a cultural construction distinct from the "Jewishness"...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0803245033

ISBN13:9780803245037

Release Date:January 2013

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:316 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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