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The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance
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The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance By Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2009 | 412 Pages | ISBN 0299208907 | PDF | 2.5 MB
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2009 | 412 Pages | ISBN 0299208907 | PDF | 2.5 MB
"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.".
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