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Leaving other people alone : diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in contemporary Jewish fiction
- Title
- Leaving other people alone : diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in contemporary Jewish fiction / Aaron Kreuter.
- Author
- Kreuter, Aaron
- Publication
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- x, 309 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist, diasporic 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 the book, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction's unique ability to contain multiple, diasporic voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literatures."--
- Alternative Title
- Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in contemporary Jewish fiction
- Subject
- American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism
- Canadian fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism
- Jewish diaspora in literature
- Zionism in literature
- Zionism and literature
- Roman américain > Auteurs juifs > Histoire et critique
- Diaspora juive dans la littérature
- Sionisme et littérature
- American fiction > Jewish authors
- Jewish diaspora in literature
- Literature
- Zionism and literature
- Zionism in literature
- Palestine > In literature
- Middle East > Palestine
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-292) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- ISBN
- 1772126578
- 9781772126570
- OCLC
- on1334884757
- 1334884757
- SCSB-14499557
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library