Writing Indians and Jews

Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33967-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guttman, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Jews and Indians: Imagining Mobile Subjects 2. Terror and the Archive: Textualizations of (Jewish?) History in Contemporary South Asian Literature 3. "I would always be the Asian, the Shylock": Postcolonial Economies of Jewishness 4. Jewish and Indian: Narrating Between Race, Faith, Ethnicity, and Nation 5. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Guttman is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Lakehead University, Canada. She is the co-editor of The Global Literary Field and author of The Nation of India in Contemporary Indian Literature.