Passages of Belonging: Interpreting Jewish Literatures

Published by De Gruyter 2019

Passages of Belonging

Interpreting Jewish Literatures

Edited by: Carola Hilfrich , Natasha Gordinsky and Susanne Zepp

Volume 7 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110525519

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About this book

In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a moving landscape of 20th and 20st century literatures, Jewish and other. It brings together contemporary writers and literary scholars who collectively map these intensities onto a bodily word world in transit and textures of habitable, readable space as passage.
Works by Hélène Cixous, Cécile Wajsbrot, Alex Epstein, Almog Behar, and Svetlana Boym explore sites made up of layers of passages, taking configurations of sayability and readability as forms, poetic and political, of inhabiting the material world. The contributions by literary scholars explore the theoretical potential of a mapping of such sites in studies of modalities of belonging and unbelonging in modern and contemporary works of literature.
The volume collects a collaborative investigation of the exigencies and potentialities of sense of place and belonging through literature, Jewish and other. It offers a literary perspective on current debates in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, human geography, architectural theory, and translation studies.

Author / Editor information

C. Hilfrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; N. Gordinsky, University of Haifa, Israel; S. Zepp, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Carola Hilfrich, Natasha Gordinsky and Susanne Zepp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I
Ail! – Il ne faut pas le dire – / Oy! – You Mustn’t Say That Hélène Cixous Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
The Depository of Zugehör: Ail! and the Soundscape of Belonging Carola Hilfrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Vous trouverez ce livre … / You’ll find this book … Cécile Wajsbrot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
“Vous trouverez ce livre ...” – Cécile Wajsbrot and the Art of Belonging Stephanie Bung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
קיצורי דרך הביתה, חרסינה מזרח גרמנית / Shortcuts Home; East German China Alex Epstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Smuggled Belongings: Alex Epstein’s Fiction of Immigration Natasha Gordinsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
אַנַא מִן אַלְ-יַהוּד / Ana min al-yahoud – I’m one of the Jews Almog Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
“The Same Words, Perhaps a Bit More Broken”: Multiple Belongings in Almog Behar’s “Ana Min al-Yahoud” Yael Kenan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Part II
French Scholem, or: Scholem’s Purloined Letter Ruth Ginsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Belonging Destabilized: Anton Shammas’s Arabesques Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Derrida’s Appurtenances: A Footnote on Language and Belonging Vivian Liska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
De-essentialized Belonging: Poetics of the Self in Joyce Mansour and Clarice Lispector Susanne Zepp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
Form and Language: Alejandra Pizarnik’s Spatial Poetics of Un/Belonging Anastasia Telaak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Architectures of Absence: Nicole Krauss’s Novel Great House Sonja Dickow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part III
Introduction to Svetlana Boym’s “Remembering Forgetting” Masha Gessen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Remembering Forgetting. Tale of a Refugee Camp Svetlana Boym Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Svetlana Boym Remembers Forgetting Sasha Senderovich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Forscher (Religionswissenschaften, Philosophie, Jüdische Studien), Bibliotheken
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 239
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 16
Keywords: Jewish Literatures; Belonging; Literary Theory; Spatial Turn

eBook

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110525519

Hardcover

Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9783110438611

Paperback

Published: December 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110736397