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Leaving Other People Alone
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- Book Synopsis
- Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the centroperipheral relationship between Israel and the diaspora, it therefore also has the potential to challenge, trouble, and ultimately rework this relationship. Kreuter suggests that any fictional work that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism comes with heightened responsibilities, primarily to make narrative space for the Palestinian worldview, the dispossessed Other of the Zionist project. In engaging prose, the book features a wide range of scholarship and new, compelling readings of texts by Theodor Herzl, Leon Uris, Philip Roth, Ayelet Tsabari, and David Bezmozgis. Throughout, Kreuter develops his concept of diasporic heteroglossia, which is fiction's unique ability to contain multiple voices that resist and write back against national centres. This work makes an important and original contribution to Jewish studies, diaspora studies, and world literature.
- About The Author
- Aaron Kreuter is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Comparative Study in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. He is the author of Arguments for Lawn Chairs; You and Me, Belonging; and Shifting Baseline Syndrome, which was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2022. He lives in Toronto.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781772126570
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press, (10 May 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 550 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 152 x 229 x 23 mm
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