Writing Indians and Jews Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Li

Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic litera

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10.1057/9781137339690 - Writing Indians and Jews, Anna Guttman

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Writing Indians and Jews

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Metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian Literature

Anna Guttman

10.1057/9781137339690 - Writing Indians and Jews, Anna Guttman

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Writing Indians and Jews

WRITING INDIANS AND JEWS

Copyright © Anna Guttman, 2013.

First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the World, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–1–137–33967–6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guttman, Anna. Writing Indians and Jews : metaphorics of Jewishness in South Asian literature / Anna Guttman. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978–1–137–33967–6 (alk. paper) 1. Jews in literature. 2. South Asian literature (English)—History and criticism. 3. Indic literature (English)—History and criticism. 4. English literature—South Asian authors—History and criticism. I. Title. PR9570.S64G88 2013 820.9 3529924054—dc23 2012050975 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Integra Software Services First edition: June 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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Acknowledgments Introduction

vii 1

1 Jews and Indians: Imagining Mobile Subjects

19

2 Terror and the Archive: Textualizations of (Jewish?) History in Contemporary South Asian Literature

57

3 “I would always be the Asian, the Shylock”: Postcolonial Economies of Jewishness

93

4 Jewish and Indian: Narrating between Race, Faith, Ethnicity, and Nation

127

Conclusion

165

Notes

173

Bibliography

175

Index

195

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