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Elsewhere Reading literary memoir from Europe and the Levant "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—paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways—narrate the paradox of the "near distance." "A striking, original piece of work."—Rebecca
L. Walkowitz, assistant professor of English at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison Adam Zachary Newton is the Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor
in English at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous
books include Narrative Ethics; Facing Black and Jew; Literature
as Public Space; and most recently The Fence and the Neighbor:
Levinas, Leibowitz, and Israel among the Nations. |
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