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- The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
"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 of Contents
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- Preface and Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction: Sta Viator
- pp. 3-40
- Works Consulted
- pp. 353-378
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299208936
Related ISBN(s)
9780299208905
MARC Record
OCLC
290523676
Pages
412
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2005