Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination

Name: Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish ImaginationNegotiating Spaces and Identities\nAuthor(s): Efraim Sicher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032135045, 978-1032135045\nSynopsis\nOffering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model.\n\nThe chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, histor.