Ruth Gilbert

Beate Meyer

Marianna Salzmann

Elisa Klapheck

Benjamin Fischer

David Brauner

Rakefet Zalashik

Charlotte Fonrobert

Deborah Antmann

Evgenia Gostrer

Niels Hölmer

Corinne Kaszner

Heide Lilith Klatt

Dani Kranz

Sarah Nemtsov

Ulrike Offerberg

Tanja Berg

Anastasia Pleto

Pasquale Rotter

Greta Zelener

Jalta 1/2017 (1/5777)

Selbstermächtigung

Erica Fudge

Susan Wiseman

What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now understood implies a renegotiation of the relationship between the self and the world. The development of Renaissance technologies of difference such as mapping, colonialism and anatomy paradoxically also illuminated the similarities between human and non-human. This collection considers the borders between humans and their imagined others: animals, women, native subjects, machines. It examines border creatures (hermaphrodites, wildmen and cyborgs) and border practices (science, surveying and pornography).

Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period

At the Borders of the Human

British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores how Jewishness exists alongside a range of other different identities in Britain today. By interrogating myths and stereotypes and looking at themes of remembering and forgetting, belonging and alienation, location and dislocation, Ruth Gilbert examines how these writers identify the particularity of their difference – while acknowledging that this difference is neither fixed nor final, but always open to re-interpretation.

Contemporary British-Jewish Literature

Writing Jewish

Ruth Gilbert

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