Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword from the Editors v
3. Contents vii
4. Special Focus: Jewish Magic Realism
5. Introduction: A Jewish Magic Realism? 3
6. Is Magical Realism Kosher? A Conversation 18
7. Universalism and Symbolism in Holocaust Fiction 34
8. Intertextuality and the Trace of the Other: Specters of Bruno Schulz 49
9. Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon’s Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration 69
10. Dreams in the Desert: Searching for Identity in Albert Memmi’s Experimental Fiction 91
11. Inception of a Nation and the Birth of the Hero: Magic Realism in Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 107
12. The Search for M…: Magic Realism in Doron Rabinovici and Benjamin Stein 121
13. Displacement and Jewish Identity: Magical Realism in the Novels of Dara Horn 150
14. “Jewish, Here in the Back”: The Magical and Comical Call of an Enigmatic Difference in Nathan Englander’s “The Gilgul of Park Avenue” and Steve Stern’s “The Tale of a Kite” 170
15. Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler’s The Journey ‘after Auschwitz’ 192
16. The Usual Suspects: Jewish Magical Realism, Trauma and the Holocaust 210
17. Magic and Realism in the Art and the Memoir of Samuel Bak 231
18. “A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, Yet Haunting Myself.” The Holocaust, the Magical and the Real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993) 245
19. Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalization in the World of the Mizrachi Woman 261
20. General Section
21. On the Edge of No Place. Liminal Spaces and Fictional Representation in the Age of Postmodernism 281
22. Virginia Woolf’s “Surreal” Imagery in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse 299
23. Halftone Reality: Icon and Symbol in Graphic Narrative 321
24. “Where Bees Pray on Their Knees”: Spiritual and Religious Symbolism in Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees 336
25. The Language of the Deep: Symbolism and Its Place in Twentieth-century Religious Poetry 352
26. “Across the Divide”: The Contemporary English Elegy 367
27. Hope, Incandescent yet Contained: A Hegelian Reading of Hölderlin’s “Celebration of Peace” 380
28. Book Reviews 395
29. Contributors 409
30. Index 415