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Authors: Sander L. Gilman
ISBN-13: 9781403965608, ISBN-10: 1403965609
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: REV
Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago and Director of the Humanites Laboratory. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over sixty books. He lives in Chicago.
In a series of interlinked essays, Sander Gilman reimagines Jewish identity as that of people living on a frontier rather than in a diaspora.
Preface | ||
Introduction: The Frontier as a Model for Jewish History | 1 | |
1 | The First Comic Film about the Shoah: Jurek Becker and Cultural Opposition within the GDR | 35 |
2 | Is Life Beautiful? Can the Shoah Be Funny? On the Frontier between Acceptable and Unacceptable Representations of the Holocaust in Some Newer and Older Films | 65 |
3 | Smoking Jews on the Frontier | 95 |
4 | A French Frontier: Proust's Nose | 111 |
5 | A Dream of Jewishness on the Frontier: Kafka's Tumor and "A Country Doctor" | 129 |
6 | Private Knowledge: Jewish Illnesses and the Process of Identity Formation | 149 |
7 | "We're Not Jews": Imagining Jewish History and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary Multicultural Literature | 169 |
Notes | 207 | |
Supplemental Reading | 235 | |
Index | 239 |