The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near DistanceUniv of Wisconsin Press, 3 août 2005 - 412 pages "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." |
Table des matières
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 |
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