Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the "jew" in Contemporary by Efraim Sicher
By Efraim Sicher
In the Western literary culture, the “jew” has lengthy been a determine of ethnic exclusion and social isolation—the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. however it is not any longer transparent the place a perennial outsider belongs. This provocative examine of latest British writing issues to the determine of the “jew” because the litmus attempt of multicultural society. Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse study the “jew” as a cultural development unique from the “Jewishness” of literary characters in novels by way of, between others, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Doris Lessing, Monica Ali, Caryl Philips, and Zadie Smith, in addition to modern paintings and film.
Here just like the “jew” emerges in all its ambivalence, from postcolonial migrant and glossy everyman to extra conventional representations of the conspirator and malefactor. The multicultural discourses of ethnic and racial hybridity replicate dissolution of nationwide and private identities, but the hunt for transnational, cultural types conceals either the attractiveness of marginal South Asian, Caribbean, and Jewish voices in addition to the risk of resurgent antisemitic tropes. leading edge in its contextualization of the “jew” within the multiculturalism debate in modern Britain, Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the “jew” in modern British Writing analyzes the narrative of identities in a globalized tradition and gives new interpretations of postmodern classics.
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