| Description |
1 online resource (x, 309 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand -- The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes -- When Jews Ruled the Volga -- Kabbalist Rap -- Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness -- Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth's The Plot Against America -- Leybl Botwinik's Di Geheyme Shlikhes -- Ancient Jewish Elements in Twenty-First-Century Alfredian Fanfiction -- Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah -- Contra Torrentem |
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Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem -- Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness -- Seeking a Promised Land -- Why Are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative? -- Writing the Jewish Heroine's Journey -- Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction -- Conclusion -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors |
| Summary |
"Jewish Fantasy Worldwide: Trends in Speculative Stories from Australia to Chile reaches beyond American fiction to reveal a spectrum of Jewish fantasy: Post-Holocaust Soviet tales; Yiddish science fiction from the 1980s; Mizrahi novels from Iran, Iraq, and Turkey; and new themes and subgenres from Brazil to Morocco. This essay collection explores Jewish speculative fiction from every continent"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Speculative fiction -- History and criticism
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Speculative fiction -- Jewish authors
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Fantasy fiction -- Jewish authors
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Science fiction -- Jewish authors
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Jews in literature
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Judaism in literature
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Jews in literature.
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Judaism in literature.
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Speculative fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980- editor
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| LC no. |
2023001923 |
| ISBN |
9781666926613 |
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1666926612 |
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