The politics of Jewishness in contemporary world literature : the holocaust, Zionism and colonialism / Isabelle Hesse.

Cover ; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 From the Enlightenment to the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Ideas of Jewishness in the Modern and Contemporary Period; 2 The Complexities of Victimhood: Nazism and Zionism in German-Jewish Literature; 3 Rewriting the Foundations of Israel: Shulamith Hareven's Thirst: The Desert Trilogy and David Grossman's See Under: Love; 4 Minority, Exile and Belonging in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay and Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood; 5 Black Jews, White Arabs: Zionism, the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Mizrahi Literature

6 'Within the bounds of the permissible': Palestinians in a Jewish National Space7 Imagining the Other: Jewish Settlers, Soldiers and Civilians in Palestinian Literature; 8 'We are not all Jews': Jewish Victimhood in Metropolitan Literature; Notes; References; Index