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Diasporas of the mind: Jewish and postcolonial writing and the nightmare of history
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers - some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal - to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers. Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he examines - among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark - as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures
Special issue: The image of the Jew in European liberal culture, 1789 - 1914
In: Jewish culture and history 6.2003,1
Zygmunt Bauman's window: From Jews to strangers and back again
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Volume 156, Issue 1, p. 67-85
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Legislators and Interpreters (1987), Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) and Modernity and Ambivalence (1991) are the foundational trilogy on which Zygmunt Bauman developed much of his later work (from postmodernity to liquid modernity and from "the Jew" to "the Stranger"). This article is a unique engagement with the trilogy and with the metaphorical thinking which relates the trilogy to Bauman's later work in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The article is divided into three parts focusing broadly on Warsaw, Leeds, and Jerusalem as contextual "windows" for Bauman's Jewishness under the sign of totalitarianism, exile, and globalism. This is the first account of Bauman's Jewishness in relation to his extraordinary life and work and includes, for the first time, his little known "Jewish" essays which are placed next to his more general theories of modernity.
The JQ and other 'Diasporas of the mind'
In: Jewish quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 3-4, p. 75-79
ISSN: 2326-2516
The dignity of Janina Bauman: A personal reflection
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Volume 107, Issue 1, p. 94-100
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
The dignity of Janina Bauman: A personal reflection
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Volume 107, Issue 1, p. 94-101
ISSN: 0725-5136
On Being a Jewish Critic
In: Jewish social studies: history, culture and society, Volume 11, Issue 1, p. 32-51
ISSN: 1527-2028
Foreword
In: Immigrants & minorities, Volume 21, Issue 1-2, p. 7-9
ISSN: 1744-0521
Between Repulsion and Attraction: George Steiner's Post-Holocaust Fiction
In: Jewish social studies: history, culture and society, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 67-81
ISSN: 1527-2028
Jews and Jewishness in the writings of George Eliot and Frantz Fanon1
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Volume 29, Issue 4, p. 3-17
ISSN: 1461-7331
Hilaire belloc and the 'Marconi scandal' 1900–1914: A reassessment of the interactionist model of racial hatred
In: Immigrants & minorities, Volume 8, Issue 1-2, p. 130-142
ISSN: 1744-0521
H. G. Wells and the Jews: Antisemitism, socialism and English culture
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Volume 22, Issue 3, p. 22-35
ISSN: 1461-7331
Reviews
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 47-55
ISSN: 1461-7331