Martin Paul Eve

Bryan Cheyette

Dominic O'Key

Narrating the War Against Animals

Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Simon Gikandi

Catherine Lynette Innes

Dennis Walder

Firdous Azim

English Association

Denise DeCaires Narain

Briar Wood

Essays on the contribution of African, Caribbean, Asian and diaspora writers to 'English' literature.

Reading the 'new' Literatures in a Postcolonial Era

In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers—some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal—to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War. Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonization, through internationally prominent literature after the Second World War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary Jewish, post-ethnic, and postcolonial writers.div /DIVdivCheyette regards many of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century luminaries he examines—among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith, and Muriel Spark—as critical exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal boundaries./DIV

Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

Diasporas of the Mind

Combining cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with readings of the works of major contemporary authors, this study concludes that "the Jew" is characterized unstereotypically as the embodiment of uncertainty within English literature and society.

Racial Representations, 1875-1945

Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society

Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation.Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Spark's best known work, is placed in a much broader social and literary context than is usual.

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism.

For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European "ghettos", which enabled genocide, were crudely rehabilitated by the Nazis during World War Two as if they were part of a benign medieval tradition. In the United States, the word ghetto was routinely applied to endemic black ghettoization which has lasted from 1920 until the present. Outside of America "the ghetto" has been universalized as the incarnation of class difference, or colonialism, or apartheid, and has been applied to segregated cities and countries throughout the world. In this Very Short Introduction Bryan Cheyette unpicks the extraordinarily complex layers of contrasting meanings that have accrued over five hundred years to ghettos, considering their different settings across the globe. He considers core questions of why and when urban, racial, and colonial ghettos have appeared, and who they contain. Exploring their various identities, he shows how different ghettos interrelate, or are contrasted, across time and space, or even in the same place. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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