Re-envisioning Jewish identities : : reflections on contemporary culture in Israel and the diaspora / / by Efraim Sicher.
This innovative study shows how the imaginary constructions of self and Other are shaping identification with Jewishness in the twenty-first century. The texts and artworks discussed in this book test a diverse range of ways of identifying as Jews and with the Jewish people, while engaging with post...
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| Superior document: | Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ; 70 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Series in Jewish Studies ;
70. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | This innovative study shows how the imaginary constructions of self and Other are shaping identification with Jewishness in the twenty-first century. The texts and artworks discussed in this book test a diverse range of ways of identifying as Jews and with the Jewish people, while engaging with postmodern and postcolonial discourses of hybridity and multiculturalism. This book selects six key areas in which the boundaries of Jewish identities have been interrogated and renegotiated: nation, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, and the Holocaust. In each of these areas Sicher explores how major and emerging contemporary writers and artists re-envision the meaning of their identities. Such re-envisioning may be literally visual or metaphorical in the search for expression of artistic self between the conventional paradigms of the past and new ways of thinking. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004462252 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Efraim Sicher. |