Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 309 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781666926613
Series Statement:
Jewish science fiction and fantasy
Content:
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy: Post-Holocaust Soviet tales; Yiddish science fiction from the 1980s; Mizrahi novels from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; and new themes and subgenres from Brazil to Morocco. This essay collection explores Jewish speculative fiction from every continent.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand -- The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes -- When Jews Ruled the Volga -- Kabbalist Rap -- Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness -- Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America -- Leybl Botwinik's Di Geheyme Shlikhes -- Ancient Jewish Elements in Twenty-First-Century Alfredian Fanfiction -- Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah -- Contra Torrentem -- Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem -- Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness -- Seeking a Promised Land -- Why Are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative? -- Writing the Jewish Heroine's Journey -- Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781666926606
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jewish fantasy worldwide Lanham : Lexington Books, 2023 ISBN 9781666926606
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jüdische Literatur
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Speculative fiction
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