Writing Indians And Jews Metaphorics Of Jewishness In South Asian Literature

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""The book is a model of careful research by a scholar who understands the entangled intellectual contexts within which Jewishness is discussed in South Asian national and postcolonial discourses. Guttman is extraordinarily knowledgeable about the range of representations of Jews in South Asian literature, and she is able to reveal the nuances with which images of Jews are appropriated or reframed by South Asian writers, including Jewish ones. The study is intellectually broad-ranging, encompassing critical analysis of the correspondingly shifting and unstable place of Jews in Europe and North America, and delving deeply into the ways in which Jews and the representations of them - whether sympathetic or disdainful, complex or stereotypical - have become deeply interwoven into debates on postcolonialism, religion, and cultural identity in South Asia and among its diasporas. Guttman has chosen her topic exceedingly well and writes about it with grace, probity, and passionate intelligence."--Lincoln Shlensky, Associate Professor of English, University of Victoria, Canada (review, publisher).