{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-companion-to-modern-david-brauner-9781399508834","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProvides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together essays covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. Moreover, it complicates all these terms, emphasising the porousness between different national traditions and moving beyond traditional definitions of Jewishness. For the sake of structural clarity, the volume is divided into three parts - 'American Jewish Fiction', 'British Jewish Fiction' and 'International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction' - but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work. \u003ci\u003eThe Edinburgh Companion\u003c\/i\u003e is a paradigm-changing event, and nothing in Jewish literary studies that follows can fail to pay close attention to it. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighlights the rich diversity of the field and identifies its key themes, including immigration, the Diaspora, the Holocaust, Judaism, assimilation, antisemitism and Zionism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalyses the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situates them in historical context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses the place of Anglophone Jewish fiction in relation to critical debates concerning transatlanticism and transnationalism; ethnicity and identity politics; postcolonial studies, feminist studies and Jewish Studies. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWith a preface by Mark Shechner, the volume contains 28 essays by contributors including Vicki Aarons (Trinity University, Texas), Debra Shostak (Wooster College, Ohio), Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia), Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University, Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), Sue Vice (University of Sheffield), Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), Ruth Gilbert (University of Winchester), Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) andSandra Singer (University of Guelph).\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at The University of Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxel St臧ler is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Brauner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399508830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399508834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.93d","brand":"David Brauner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075664081151,"sku":"9781399508834","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_45e56482-7a23-4116-9ca1-0ac7d084dfee.jpg?v=1685460743","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-companion-to-modern-david-brauner-9781399508834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}