Anglophone Jewish Literature

Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Axel Stähler (University of Bonn)
Jewish Literature(s) in English?

Bryan Cheyette (University of Southampton)
On Being a Jewish Critic

The Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s)

Jamie S. Scott (York University, Toronto)
Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary

Sigrun Meinig (University of Bielefeld)
"What’s more important than a gesture?" The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness

Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces In-Between –
Jewish Writing from the Anglophone Diaspora(s)

– America –

Ranen Omer-Sherman (University of Miami)
Jewish/Queer: Thresholds of Vulnerable Identities in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

Emily Miller Budick (The Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
Literary Symptomology and Jewish Fiction: "Envy; or, The New Yiddish in America"

David Brauner (University of Reading)
Fifty Ways to See Your Lover: Vision and Revision in the Fiction of Amy Bloom

– Britain –

Peter Lawson (University of Southampton)
Otherness and Affiliation in Anglo-Jewish Poetry

Oliver Groß (University of Bamberg)
Diasporic Voices? Second-Generation Jewish Authors in Britain

Claudia Sternberg (University of Leeds)
Diaspora Blues: Language, Literature and the Body in the Work of Clive Sinclair

– ‘Postcolonia’ –

Catherine Hezser (Trinity College Dublin)
Postcolonialism and the Irish Jewish Experience

Albert-Reiner Glaap (University of Düsseldorf)
Contemporary Jewish Plays on the Canadian Stage

Margaret Lenta (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)
Jewish Writers and Postcolonial Choices in South Africa

Elisa Morera de la Vall (University of Barcelona)
Jewish Writing in Australia

Karen Alkalay-Gut (Tel Aviv University)
The Anglo-Israeli Writer: Double Identities in Troubled Times

The ‘Loquation’ of Jewish Culture

Pascal Fischer (University of Würzburg)
Voices of Identity: Language in Jewish-American Literature

Miriam Sivan (University of Haifa)
The Words to Say It: The Loss of Language and Power in Cynthia Ozick’s "Envy; or Yiddish in America"

Karen Grumberg (University of Texas, Austin)
Ricki Lake in Tel-Aviv: Orly Castel-Bloom’s Hebrew English

Chronology of Anglophone Jewish Communities

Anglophone Jewish Authors

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Axel Stähler teaches English and American literature at the University of Bonn, Germany and is project coordinator of the international research project Fundamentalism and Literature at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published widely on the literature and culture of the Anglophone and German-speaking Jewish diasporas.