The Elsewhere: On Belonging At A Near Distance: Reading Literary Memoir From Europe and the Levant - Rilegato

Newton, Adam Zachary

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ISBN 10: 0299208907 ISBN 13: 9780299208905

Casa editrice: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2005

Riassunto

"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers ofThe Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Adam Zachary Newton is Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books includeNarrative Ethics, Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space, and most recentlyThe Fence and the Neighbor: Levinas, Leibowitz, and Israel Among the Nations.

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Book by Newton Adam Zachary

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0299208907
• ISBN 13: 9780299208905
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 397