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Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish imagination. The chapters in this collection cover speculative works by Jewish artists and about Jewish characters from a broad range of national contexts, including post-Holocaust Europe, the Soviet Union, Israel, South America, French Canada, and the Middle East. The contributors consider various media including novels, short stories, film, YouTube videos, and fanfiction. Essays explore topics ranging from the ancient Jewish kingdom of Khazaria to modern university classes and the revival of Yiddish to the breadth of LGBTQ+ representation. For scholars and fans alike, this collection of essays will provide new perspectives on Jewish presences in speculative fiction around the world.
Published | 06 Apr 2023 |
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Format | Hardback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 320 |
ISBN | 9781666926606 |
Imprint | Lexington Books |
Illustrations | 1 b/w illustrations; |
Dimensions | 237 x 159 mm |
Series | Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
These elucidations map out the true limits of the Jewish diaspora, which are also the limits of our imagination.
Ilan Stavans, Amherst College and author of Talmudic Void: An Interstellar Interpretation
This is a wonderful volume, offering a wealth of information and analysis on the incredibly important, and yet often overlooked, topic of Jewish science fiction and fantasy. Historically, Jews have been central to the development of the genre in the US. But outside the US, there are many strands of Jewish-themed and Jewish-inspired speculative fiction that are almost unknown to the Anglophone academy. This comprehensive collection presents a broad overview of Jewish speculative fiction around the world, emphasizing both its heterogeneity and its unifying substratum of shared history and identity. Ranging from Australia to Central Europe, from Mizrahi Magical Realism to Soviet Science Fiction, this collection is indispensable to any serious scholar of Jewish culture and speculative fiction.
Elana Gomel, Tel-Aviv University and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy
Jewish Fantasy Worldwide [does] an excellent job of giving wide-ranging perspectives on little-known authors, and new perspectives on well-known authors. Even contributions that go beyond the project’s parameters provide something substantial, well-researched, and well-written.
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