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Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel w...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Symbolism;
12/13 |
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| Summary: |
Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel with issues of identity, oppression and persecution as well as the Holocaust. |
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1 online resource(ix,422pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110297201（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
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Frontmatter -- Foreword from the Editors -- Contents -- Introduction: A Jewish Magic Realism? / Is Magical Realism Kosher? A Conversation / Universalism and Symbolism in Holocaust Fiction / Intertextuality and the Trace of the Other: Specters of Bruno Schulz / Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon s Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration / Dreams in the Desert: Searching for Identity in Albert Memmi s Experimental Fiction / Inception of a Nation and the Birth of the Hero: Magic Realism in Meir Shalev s A Pigeon and a Boy and Salman Rushdie s Midnight s Children / The Search for M : Magic Realism in Doron Rabinovici and Benjamin Stein / Displacement and Jewish Identity: Magical Realism in the Novels of Dara Horn / "Jewish, Here in the Back": The Magical and Comical Call of an Enigmatic Difference in Nathan Englander s "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" and Steve Stern s "The Tale of a Kite" / Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler s The Journey after Auschwitz / The Usual Suspects: Jewish Magical Realism, Trauma and the Holocaust / Magic and Realism in the Art and the Memoir of Samuel Bak / "A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, Yet Haunting Myself." The Holocaust, the Magical and the Real in Elijah Moshinsky s Genghis Cohn (1993) / Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalization in the World of the Mizrachi Woman / On the Edge of No Place. Liminal Spaces and Fictional Representation in the Age of Postmodernism / Virginia Woolf s "Surreal" Imagery in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse / Halftone Reality: Icon and Symbol in Graphic Narrative / |