Axel Stähler
Biographic Data
| ID | 175683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Axel Stähler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Axel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stähler |
| SIGNATURE | STÄHLER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Et in Ashkenazia ego: Utopias of the Holocaust
This article interrogates examples of alternative histories in contemporary British Jewish writing which redraw and reinterpret the topography of the Holocaust. More specifically, it explores the tensions which arise in Clive Sinclair’s short story ‘Ashkenazia’ (1980) and Dan Jacobson’s novel The God-Fearer (1992) between notions of a Jewish heterotopia, the re-inscription of historical topographies, and the imaginary of the Holocaust. Set in an …
Between or Beyond? Jewish British Short Stories in English since the 1970s
Looking at short stories by writers as diverse as Brian Glanville, Ruth Fainlight, Clive Sinclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Lasdun, Gabriel Josipovici, Tamar Yellin, Michelene Wandor, and Naomi Alderman, and extending from the center of Jewish British writing to its margins, this article seeks to locate the defining feature of their ‘Jewish substratum’ in conditions particular to the Jewish post-war experience, and to trace its impact across their …
Screaming “Black” Murder: Crime Fiction and the Construction of Ethnic Identities
A significant segment of crime fiction is concerned with the representation of ethnic identities and may to some extent be considered paradigmatic of the participation of literary texts in discourses on race and minorities. This article explores constructions of ethnic identities in American, British, and South African crime fiction from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. In particular, the focus is on such texts in which the ethno-cult…
Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference
Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary, aesthetic, and journalistic texts, advertisements, postcards and photographs, monuments and …
The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
WINNER of the Association of Jewish Libraries’ Judaica Reference Award Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. The volume…
Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses
Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network ’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of ge…
Of Shadow-Play and Promised Lands: Between America and Israel: Interview with Clive Sinclair
In 1983, Clive Sinclair (b. 1948) was named one of Granta's twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. He is the author of four collections of short stories: Hearts of Gold (1979), Bedbugs (1982) and The Lady with the Laptop and Other Stories (1996), which have won – or been short-listed for – literary prizes, including the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and the PEN Silver Pen. His latest collect…
Introduction: Writing Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain
Several of the articles gathered in this special issue are based on papers presented at the symposium on ‘Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain’ held at and generously funded by the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism on 11 September 2013, and co-convened by the editors together with the Institute’s director, David Feldman. Others have been especially commissioned for the issue. Thanks are also due to Jan Davison, Jonathan Magonet and Je…
Antisemitism and Israel in British Jewish fiction: Perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010)
Recently Howard Jacobson’s Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question (2010) and Peter Kosminsky’s controversial TV mini-series The Promise (2011) have forcefully re-introduced the issue of Israel to British Jewish cultural creativity. Both need to be understood not only in the context of contemporary British Jewish cultural creativity but also of the earlier literary engagement with Israel in British Jewish fiction. Focusing in particular o…
Constructions of Jewish Identity and the Spectre of Colonialism: Of White Skin and Black Masks in Early Zionist Discourse
Early Zionist discourse was ripe with constructions of a new Jewish identity. Discussing responses to the so‐called Uganda plan of 1903–5 and notions of Jewish colonisation in Africa and elsewhere, the article investigates demarcations of Jewishness from, and identifications with, ‘blackness’ in the early twentieth‐century German Zionist press and literature and their impact on the Zionist imaginary vis‐à‐vis the colonial paradigm. Particular att…
Apocalyptic Visions and Utopian Spaces in Late Victorian and Edwardian Prophecy Fiction
Prophecy fiction emerged around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It is suggested in this article that, like modernist literature, it articulates a reaction to, and against, modernity, providing an alternative response to its fragmenting, decentering, and spiritually draining impact on traditional societies. In contrast to the mostly cerebral engagement of modernist fiction with religious experience recently argued for by Peric…
Fighting the Fever: Archives of Atrocity in Alain Resnais' Nuit et brouillard and David Grossman's See Under: Love
Speaking about the genesis of his novel ’Ayen ’erekh: ahavah (See Under: Love, 1986)1 at a symposium on ‘The Future of the Holocaust’, David Grossman genially teased his audience: ‘Everyone tells you what influenced you, who you learned from, or just stole from.’ And, he added, ‘the learned critics pronounced what had influenced me, and what I had borrowed. When, for the first time, I went and read those books and writers, I discovered that in fa…
The Holocaust in the nursery: Anita Desai'sBaumgartner's Bombay
With particular attention to Anita Desai’s use of German nursery rhymes and children’s songs, this article offers a reading of the Holocaust narrative in her novel Baumgartner’s Bombay in relation to interpretive expectations informed by discourses of the Holocaust and postcolonialism and to the appropriation of the novel to one or the other of these paradigms. It suggests that the novel transcends such interpretive patterns by structurally engag…
Anglophone Jewish Literature
Foreword Jonathan Wilson Introduction 1. Introduction: Jewish Literature(s) in English? Axel Stahler 2. On Being a Jewish Critic Bryan Cheyette The Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s) 3. Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary Jamie S. Scott 4. What's More Important than a Gesture? The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness Sigrun Meinig Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces in-Between - Jewish Writing from …
Screaming “Black” Murder: Crime Fiction and the Construction of Ethnic Identities
A significant segment of crime fiction is concerned with the representation of ethnic identities and may to some extent be considered paradigmatic of the participation of literary texts in discourses on race and minorities. This article explores constructions of ethnic identities in American, British, and South African crime fiction from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. In particular, the focus is on such texts in which the ethno-cult…
Antisemitism and Israel in British Jewish fiction: Perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010)
Recently Howard Jacobson’s Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question (2010) and Peter Kosminsky’s controversial TV mini-series The Promise (2011) have forcefully re-introduced the issue of Israel to British Jewish cultural creativity. Both need to be understood not only in the context of contemporary British Jewish cultural creativity but also of the earlier literary engagement with Israel in British Jewish fiction. Focusing in particular o…
Constructions of Jewish Identity and the Spectre of Colonialism: Of White Skin and Black Masks in Early Zionist Discourse
Early Zionist discourse was ripe with constructions of a new Jewish identity. Discussing responses to the so‐called Uganda plan of 1903–5 and notions of Jewish colonisation in Africa and elsewhere, the article investigates demarcations of Jewishness from, and identifications with, ‘blackness’ in the early twentieth‐century German Zionist press and literature and their impact on the Zionist imaginary vis‐à‐vis the colonial paradigm. Particular att…
Anglophone Jewish Literature
Foreword Jonathan Wilson Introduction 1. Introduction: Jewish Literature(s) in English? Axel Stahler 2. On Being a Jewish Critic Bryan Cheyette The Jewish Imaginary in Non-Jewish Anglophone Literature(s) 3. Postcolonial Cultures and the Jewish Imaginary Jamie S. Scott 4. What's More Important than a Gesture? The Cultural Performativity of Jewishness Sigrun Meinig Changing Centres, Changing Peripheries, and Spaces in-Between - Jewish Writing from …
The Holocaust in the nursery: Anita Desai'sBaumgartner's Bombay
With particular attention to Anita Desai’s use of German nursery rhymes and children’s songs, this article offers a reading of the Holocaust narrative in her novel Baumgartner’s Bombay in relation to interpretive expectations informed by discourses of the Holocaust and postcolonialism and to the appropriation of the novel to one or the other of these paradigms. It suggests that the novel transcends such interpretive patterns by structurally engag…
Fighting the Fever: Archives of Atrocity in Alain Resnais' Nuit et brouillard and David Grossman's See Under: Love
Speaking about the genesis of his novel ’Ayen ’erekh: ahavah (See Under: Love, 1986)1 at a symposium on ‘The Future of the Holocaust’, David Grossman genially teased his audience: ‘Everyone tells you what influenced you, who you learned from, or just stole from.’ And, he added, ‘the learned critics pronounced what had influenced me, and what I had borrowed. When, for the first time, I went and read those books and writers, I discovered that in fa…
Apocalyptic Visions and Utopian Spaces in Late Victorian and Edwardian Prophecy Fiction
Prophecy fiction emerged around the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century. It is suggested in this article that, like modernist literature, it articulates a reaction to, and against, modernity, providing an alternative response to its fragmenting, decentering, and spiritually draining impact on traditional societies. In contrast to the mostly cerebral engagement of modernist fiction with religious experience recently argued for by Peric…
Antisemitism and Israel in British Jewish fiction: Perspectives on Clive Sinclair’s Blood Libels (1985) and Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question (2010)
Recently Howard Jacobson’s Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question (2010) and Peter Kosminsky’s controversial TV mini-series The Promise (2011) have forcefully re-introduced the issue of Israel to British Jewish cultural creativity. Both need to be understood not only in the context of contemporary British Jewish cultural creativity but also of the earlier literary engagement with Israel in British Jewish fiction. Focusing in particular o…
Constructions of Jewish Identity and the Spectre of Colonialism: Of White Skin and Black Masks in Early Zionist Discourse
Early Zionist discourse was ripe with constructions of a new Jewish identity. Discussing responses to the so‐called Uganda plan of 1903–5 and notions of Jewish colonisation in Africa and elsewhere, the article investigates demarcations of Jewishness from, and identifications with, ‘blackness’ in the early twentieth‐century German Zionist press and literature and their impact on the Zionist imaginary vis‐à‐vis the colonial paradigm. Particular att…
Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses
Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network ’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of ge…
Of Shadow-Play and Promised Lands: Between America and Israel: Interview with Clive Sinclair
In 1983, Clive Sinclair (b. 1948) was named one of Granta's twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. He is the author of four collections of short stories: Hearts of Gold (1979), Bedbugs (1982) and The Lady with the Laptop and Other Stories (1996), which have won – or been short-listed for – literary prizes, including the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Dylan Thomas Award and the PEN Silver Pen. His latest collect…
Introduction: Writing Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Britain
Several of the articles gathered in this special issue are based on papers presented at the symposium on ‘Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain’ held at and generously funded by the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism on 11 September 2013, and co-convened by the editors together with the Institute’s director, David Feldman. Others have been especially commissioned for the issue. Thanks are also due to Jan Davison, Jonathan Magonet and Je…
The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction
WINNER of the Association of Jewish Libraries’ Judaica Reference Award Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together 28 chapters covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. The volume…
Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa: Jewish Metamorphoses and the Colors of Difference
Zionism, the German Empire, and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically, interrogating in a comparative analysis material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary, aesthetic, and journalistic texts, advertisements, postcards and photographs, monuments and …
Screaming “Black” Murder: Crime Fiction and the Construction of Ethnic Identities
A significant segment of crime fiction is concerned with the representation of ethnic identities and may to some extent be considered paradigmatic of the participation of literary texts in discourses on race and minorities. This article explores constructions of ethnic identities in American, British, and South African crime fiction from the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. In particular, the focus is on such texts in which the ethno-cult…
Between or Beyond? Jewish British Short Stories in English since the 1970s
Looking at short stories by writers as diverse as Brian Glanville, Ruth Fainlight, Clive Sinclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Lasdun, Gabriel Josipovici, Tamar Yellin, Michelene Wandor, and Naomi Alderman, and extending from the center of Jewish British writing to its margins, this article seeks to locate the defining feature of their ‘Jewish substratum’ in conditions particular to the Jewish post-war experience, and to trace its impact across their …
Et in Ashkenazia ego: Utopias of the Holocaust
This article interrogates examples of alternative histories in contemporary British Jewish writing which redraw and reinterpret the topography of the Holocaust. More specifically, it explores the tensions which arise in Clive Sinclair’s short story ‘Ashkenazia’ (1980) and Dan Jacobson’s novel The God-Fearer (1992) between notions of a Jewish heterotopia, the re-inscription of historical topographies, and the imaginary of the Holocaust. Set in an …
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