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Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination
Efraim Sicher
2022
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Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Keywords
- Abie’s Irish Rose
- afterlife of love
- BDS Movement
- Choiceless Choice
- contemporary israel
- Contemporary Jewish Writers
- diaspora fiction
- Etgar Keret
- Free Women
- Gush Emunim
- Haredi Women
- identity formation
- Jewish American
- Jewish American Authors
- Jewish American Literature
- Jewish identity
- Jewish Space
- Main Frame
- Marriage Plot
- National Library
- Orly Castel Bloom
- Palestinian Arabs
- post-Zionist Critique
- Postmodern Love
- Rabbi Akiva
- Religious Zionist
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSR Social groups: religious groups and communities
- Timeless
- transgression
- wandering
- Young men
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003229582Editions