Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity
Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was - an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel''s work. It looks at Babel''s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent rela…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-936235-95-7
- EAN: 9781936235957
- Produktnummer: 14029451
- Verlag: Academic Studies Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.1 cm 636 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 636
Über den Autor
Efraim Sicher is Professor of Comparative and English Literature at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He has published essays and books on modern Jewish culture, Holocaust memory, and anti-Semitism. His most recent books are The Holocaust Novel (2005), Babel in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (2012), Rereading the City / Rereading Dickens (2nd edition 2012), and Under Postcolonial Eyes: Figuring the a¿¿Jewa¿¿ in Contemporary British Writing (with Linda Weinhouse, 2012).
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