Karen Grumberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Grumberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Grumberg |
| SIGNATURE | GRUMBERG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Program in Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All the Realities and All the Illusions
This review essay considers Adam Newton’s book Jewish Studies as Counterlife through the lens of modern Hebrew and comparative literary studies. I begin by reflecting on Newton’s articulation of the problems plaguing Jewish studies in the American academy, and on his proposal of a “Jewish Studies to come”–a vision based on relationality, interruption, and sharing that moves beyond disciplines, interdisciplinarity, and the academy itself. Bringing…
The greatness of smallness
This article offers a comparative reading of stories by Amos Oz and Sherwood Anderson to propose “smallness” – evoked by genre, setting, and literary devices – as a vital literary strategy structuring Oz’s works. Manifestations of smallness, fundamental to the twentieth-century American literary imagination, are indispensable in Oz’s stories. Paradoxically, both Oz’s literary modernism and his status as a “world author” can only be understood in …
Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature
Place and Ideology examines literary depictions of vernacular places, the lived places of everyday life, such as balconies and cafes, to propose a reconceptualization of how space informs Israeli identity
In Spite of Partition
Book Review| August 01 2009 In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination Gil Z. Hochberg Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 192 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Karen Grumberg Karen Grumberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 342–343. https…
In Spite of Partition
Book Review| August 01 2009 In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination Gil Z. Hochberg Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 192 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Karen Grumberg Karen Grumberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 342–343. https…
In Spite of Partition
Book Review| August 01 2009 In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs, and the Limits of Separatist Imagination Gil Z. Hochberg Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 192 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Karen Grumberg Karen Grumberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 342–343. https…
Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature
Place and Ideology examines literary depictions of vernacular places, the lived places of everyday life, such as balconies and cafes, to propose a reconceptualization of how space informs Israeli identity
The greatness of smallness
This article offers a comparative reading of stories by Amos Oz and Sherwood Anderson to propose “smallness” – evoked by genre, setting, and literary devices – as a vital literary strategy structuring Oz’s works. Manifestations of smallness, fundamental to the twentieth-century American literary imagination, are indispensable in Oz’s stories. Paradoxically, both Oz’s literary modernism and his status as a “world author” can only be understood in …
All the Realities and All the Illusions
This review essay considers Adam Newton’s book Jewish Studies as Counterlife through the lens of modern Hebrew and comparative literary studies. I begin by reflecting on Newton’s articulation of the problems plaguing Jewish studies in the American academy, and on his proposal of a “Jewish Studies to come”–a vision based on relationality, interruption, and sharing that moves beyond disciplines, interdisciplinarity, and the academy itself. Bringing…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Hebrew (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish literature (2 works)