- Summary
- "Throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he examines - among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark - as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures."--Provided by publisher
- Variant Title
- Jewish and postcolonial writing and the nightmare of history
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Cheyette, Bryan.
- Published
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
©2013
- Contents
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Diasporas of the mind
Diaspora and colonialism : Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and the cosmopolitan Jew
Diaspora and the Holocaust : Primo Levi, Jean Amery and the art of returning the blow
Diaspora, 'race' and redemption : Muriel Spark and the trauma of Africa
American diaspora: Philip Roth and the national turn
Diaspora and postcolonialism: Salman Rushdie and the Jews
Diaspora and postethnicity.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-295) and index.
Diasporas of the mind -- Diaspora and colonialism : Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and the cosmopolitan Jew -- Diaspora and the Holocaust : Primo Levi, Jean Amery and the art of returning the blow -- Diaspora, 'race' and redemption : Muriel Spark and the trauma of Africa -- American diaspora: Philip Roth and the national turn -- Diaspora and postcolonialism: Salman Rushdie and the Jews -- Diaspora and postethnicity.
