Beyond the Land: Diaspora Israeli Culture in the Twenty-First Century - Couverture rigide

Weininger, Melissa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814350607 ISBN 13 : 9780814350607

Editeur : Wayne State University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This thought-provoking exploration of literature and art examines contemporary Israeli works created in and about diaspora that exemplify new ways of envisioning a Jewish national identity. Diaspora has become a popular mechanism to imagine non-sovereign models of Jewish peoplehood, but these models often valorize powerlessness in sometimes troubling ways. In this book, Melissa Weininger theorizes a new category of "diaspora Israeli culture" that is formed around and through notions of homeland and complicate the binary between diaspora and Israel. The works addressed here inhabit and imagine diaspora from the vantage point of the putative homeland, engaging both diasporic and Zionist models simultaneously through language, geography, and imagination. These examples contend with the existence of the state of Israel and its complex implications for diaspora Jewish identities and nationalisms, as well as the implications for Zionism of those diasporic conceptions of Jewish national identity. This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Melissa Weininger is assistant professor of Jewish studies at California State University, Northridge. She has previously published works in peer-reviewed journals including Studies in American JewishLiterature, Studies in the Novel, Prooftexts, and Shofar. Her scholarship engages with topics including diaspora, Zionism and Jewish nationalism, Holocaust representation, and translingual, Hebrew, and Yiddish literature. She is also codirector of the Association for Jewish Studies' Paula Hyman Mentorship Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wayne State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814350607
• ISBN 13: 9780814350607
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible