The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature : The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism (Paperback)

1. Introduction: From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period 2. The Complexities of Victimhood: The Holocaust and Israel in German-Jewish Literature 3. Rewriting the Foundational Myths of Israel: Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman's See Under: Love 4. Minority, Exile, and Belonging in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood 5. Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature 6. 'Within the Bounds of the Permissible': Palestinians in a Jewish National Space 7. Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers, and Civilians in Palestinian Literature 8. Conclusion: 'We are not all Jews': Resisting Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature Bibliography Index