Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland

by Cheyette, Bryan

• ISBN13: 9780803263888
• ISBN10: 0803263880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Irelandpresents a wide range of writerssome at the heart of British culture, others outside the mainstreamwho address the issue of Jewish cultural difference in Great Britain and Ireland. Editor Bryan Cheyette has assembled a striking roster of writers whose extraordinary imagination and understanding of Jewish experience in Britain and Ireland have transformed English literature in recent decades. They include established figures like Anita Brookner, Harold Pinter, and George Steiner, as well as such vibrant new voices as Elena Lappin, Jonathan Treitel, and Jonathan Wilson. As Cheyette argues, "the contemporary British-Jewish writers in this volume defy the authority of England and the Anglo-Jewish community. . . . [All] are risk-takers who . . . will eventually help replace narrow national narratives and gendered identities with a broader, more plural, diasporic culture."

Author Biography

Bryan Cheyette is a professor of English and drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He is the author of Construction of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875–1945.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Introduction
Preface
Introduction
A Birthday in London (1963)	p. 3
Excerpt from The Elected Member (1969)	p. 19
Fanya (1972)	p. 41
Excerpt from Little Eden: A Child at War (1978)	p. 55
Another Survivor (1978)	p. 73
A Wizard's Robe Patterned with Stars and Moons (1994)	p. 81
Wingate Football Club (1979)	p. 89
Bedbugs (1982)	p. 101
Excerpt from The Border (1984): Inge Wendler's Diary	p. 117
Excerpt from Peeping Tom (1984): Prologue	p. 141
Excerpt from The Therapy of Avram Blok (1985)	p. 157
Excerpt from The Days of Miracles and Wonders (1997): Guilty as Charged	p. 165
Return to Sender (1986)	p. 177
Song of the Jewish Princess (1989)	p. 185
Excerpt from The Latecomers (1988)	p. 195
Excerpt from Night Train to Mother (1989): 'Ruth 1984'	p. 209
Excerpt from The Dwarfs (1990)	p. 227
A Conversation Piece (1991)	p. 243
Excerpt from The God-Fearer (1992)	p. 257
Excerpt from In a Hotel Garden (1993)	p. 273
From Shanghai (1993)	p. 293
Noa and Noah (1998)	p. 309
Selflessness; or Alexander and His Electric Wok (1998)	p. 321
Shaking Hands with Theodor Herzl (1998)	p. 329
Acknowledgments	p. 335
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