Under Postcolonial Eyes : Figuring the "Jew" in Contemporary British Writing / Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse.

In the Western literary tradition, the "jew" has long been a figure of ethnic exclusion and social isolation - the wanderer, the scapegoat, the alien. But it is no longer clear where a perennial outsider belongs. This study of contemporary British writing points to the figure of the "...

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Main Author: Sicher, Efraim
Other Authors: Weinhouse, Linda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
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