Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 26)

Lazarus, Joyce Block

ISBN 10: 0820440205 / ISBN 13: 9780820440200

Edité par Peter Lang Publishing, 1999

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1999 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text. 141 p.

N° de réf. du vendeur 034054

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Strangers and Sojourners: Jewish Identity in Contemporary Francophone Fiction (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 26)
• Éditeur: Peter Lang Publishing
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820440205
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820440200
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Strangers and Sojourners demonstrates that there is a distinctive French Jewish literature today, characterized not by its authors' common nationality, but by their identification with a Jewish collectivity and with French language and culture. The six authors in this study, Memmi, Wiesel, Schwarz-Bart, Perec, Modiano, and Jacques, all writing after Auschwitz, engage in a quest for a modern Jewish consciousness. Torn between the opposing pulls of Judaism and French cultural values, they exhibit their tension and ambivalent feelings through the themes and structure of their fiction, and in their ambiguous relationship with the French language.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author: Joyce Block Lazarus is Professor of Modern Languages at Framingham State College. She received her Ph.D. in French Literature from Harvard University. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, poems, and memoirs, she wrote a college literary reader called Parole aux jeunes.