Guttman Writing Indians and Jews

Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33969-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 209 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

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.

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.