'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa By Eitan Bar-Yosef, Nadia Valman
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1403997020 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2009 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1403997020 | PDF | 2 MB
The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of "the Jew"--pauper/capitalist, separatist/impostor, ideal colonizer/undesirable immigrant, familiar/alien. Going beyond the racial or cultural dimensions of fin de siècle semitic discourse, this new collection considers the wider colonial context in which ambivalent attitudes to Jews were produced, in particular the nexus of Britain, East Africa and Palestine. About the Author EITAN BAR-YOSEF is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His book, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism, was published in 2005. NADIA VALMAN is a Lecturer in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London, UK. She has co-edited three books on the representation of Jews in British and European culture and is the author of The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture. JOSEPH BRISTOW co-edited 'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture from Palgrave Macmillan.