UID:
edocfu_9958354188602883
Umfang:
1 online resource(ix,422p.) :
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illustrations.
Ausgabe:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110297201
Serie:
Symbolism; 12/13
Inhalt:
Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel with issues of identity, oppression and persecution as well as the Holocaust.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Foreword from the Editors --
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Contents --
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Introduction: A Jewish Magic Realism? /
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Is Magical Realism Kosher? A Conversation /
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Universalism and Symbolism in Holocaust Fiction /
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Intertextuality and the Trace of the Other: Specters of Bruno Schulz /
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Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon’s Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration /
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Dreams in the Desert: Searching for Identity in Albert Memmi’s Experimental Fiction /
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Inception of a Nation and the Birth of the Hero: Magic Realism in Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children /
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The Search for M…: Magic Realism in Doron Rabinovici and Benjamin Stein /
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Displacement and Jewish Identity: Magical Realism in the Novels of Dara Horn /
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"Jewish, Here in the Back": The Magical and Comical Call of an Enigmatic Difference in Nathan Englander’s "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" and Steve Stern’s "The Tale of a Kite" /
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Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler’s The Journey ‘after Auschwitz’ /
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The Usual Suspects: Jewish Magical Realism, Trauma and the Holocaust /
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Magic and Realism in the Art and the Memoir of Samuel Bak /
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"A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, Yet Haunting Myself." The Holocaust, the Magical and the Real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993) /
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Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalization in the World of the Mizrachi Woman /
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On the Edge of No Place. Liminal Spaces and Fictional Representation in the Age of Postmodernism /
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Virginia Woolf’s "Surreal" Imagery in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse /
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Halftone Reality: Icon and Symbol in Graphic Narrative /
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"Where Bees Pray on Their Knees": Spiritual and Religious Symbolism in Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees /
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The Language of the Deep: Symbolism and Its Place in Twentieth-century Religious Poetry /
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"Across the Divide": The Contemporary English Elegy /
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Hope, Incandescent yet Contained: A Hegelian Reading of Hölderlin’s "Celebration of Peace" /
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Book Reviews --
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Contributors --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110297010
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110297218
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110297201
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110297201
