Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature

Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli Palestinian and postcolonial writers <i>The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature </i>is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics as the Holocaust Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora experiences Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the 'colonial' turn taken by these representations since the founding of the Jewish state.