TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheyette, Bryan
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Diasporas of the mind: Jewish and postcolonial writing and the nightmare of history
PB  - Yale University Press
CY  - New Haven
KW  - Jewish literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
AB  - 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
SN  - 0300093187
LA  - English
N1  - Bryan Cheyette
ID  - 750977477
ER  -