Modernity, Culture, & 'the Jew'

by Bryan Cheyette (Editor), Laura Marcus (Editor)

This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues addressed include psychoanalysis and gender, literary antisemitism, (post)modernity and 'the Jew', and the memory of the Holocaust. A Foreword by Homi Bhabha and an Afterword by Paul Gilroy place these concerns in an extended multicultural and postcolonial context.

Genres: Jewish

297 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Pauline McGonagle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Referred to this for Homi Bhabha's introduction on connections between Parsees and Jews in India.

[Badger]

Haven't started this yet but buying books sure is a strange pastime. I just got this this morning and out of curiosity I clicked 'buy this book'. Between £38 and £52. This was printed in England and shipped to Chicago. Sent back from Chicago to me in London, eight thousand miles round trip, for £9.36 (inc postage). New, too. Weird.

Still, who's complaining?