The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 03‏/08‏/2005 - 412 من الصفحات
"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."
 

المحتوى

Sta Viator
3
Place from Place and Place from Flight
41
Flight from Flight and Flight from Border
96
Border from Border
155
Border from Beyond
207
Beyond from Beyond
240
Notes
281
Works Consulted
353
Index
379
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Adam Zachary Newton is Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include Narrative Ethics, Facing Black and Jew: Literature as Public Space, and most recently The Fence and the Neighbor: Levinas, Leibowitz, and Israel Among the Nations.

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