Jewish Frontiers Essays on Bodies, Histories, and Identities |
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| Author:
| Gilman, S. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4039-7360-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Publisher: | Ebsco Publishing
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's...
More DescriptionIn this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century. Bringing together the worlds of literature, medicine, and popular culture in his characteristic ways, Gilman looks at new, post-diasporic ways of understanding the limits of Jewish identity. Topics include the development of the genre of Holocaust comedy, the imagination of the relationship of the body, disease, and identity, and the place of Jews in today's multicultural society.