Leaving Other People Alone

Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-77212-657-0
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 484 g

Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction’s unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kreuter, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- ix Acknowledgements -

- Introduction  1 -

- Playing Jewish Geography -

- 1 Philip Goes to Israel  27 -

- Jewish Justice, Diasporism, Palestinian Voices, and Zionist Self-Censorship in Operation Shylock -

- 2 Herzl Meets Uris  77 -

- Altneuland and Exodus in Diasporic Comparison -

- 3 Arab Jews, Polycentric Diasporas, Porous Borders  131 -  

- Israel/Palestine in the Short Fiction of Ayelet Tsabari -

- 4 “The Jewish Semitone”  189 -

- Zionism and the Soviet Jewish Diaspora in The Betrayers -

- Conclusion  237 -

- Diasporic Heteroglossia, Second Cousins, Learning to Be Each Other’s Guests -

- Notes  243 -

- Works Cited  277 -

- Index  293 -

Über Autor(innen)

Kreuter, Aaron
Aaron Kreuter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Comparative Study in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. He is the author of Arguments for Lawn Chairs; You and Me, Belonging; and Shifting Baseline Syndrome, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2022. He lives in Toronto.