Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820440200)

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Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction

$41.95

Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction

$41.95
Format: Hardcover
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Strangers and Sojourners demonstrates that there is a distinctive French Jewish literature today, characterized not by its authors' common nationality, but by their identification with a Jewish collectivity and with French language and culture. The six authors in this study, Memmi, Wiesel, Schwarz-Bart, Perec, Modiano, and Jacques, all writing after Auschwitz, engage in a quest for a modern Jewish consciousness. Torn between the opposing pulls of Judaism and French cultural values, they exhibit their tension and ambivalent feelings through the themes and structure of their fiction, and in their ambiguous relationship with the French language.

Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell,Joyce Block Lazarus
ISBN-10: 0820440205
ISBN-13: 9780820440200
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 141
Format: Hardcover
By Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
By Tamara Alvarez-Detrell
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The Author: Joyce Block Lazarus is Professor of Modern Languages at Framingham State College. She received her Ph.D. in French Literature from Harvard University. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, poems, and memoirs, she wrote a college literary reader called Parole aux jeunes.

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