'Ineffable and usable': Towards a diasporic British-Jewish writing

Textual Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 295-313

  Cheyette, Bryan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Jewish literature; Clive Sinclair; Diaspora; Elaine Feinstein; Isaac Rosenberg; Israel Zangwill

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001323622     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502369608582248     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Phil Cohen, Home Rules: Some Reflections on Racism and Nationalism in Everyday Life (London: University of East London Press, 1993), p. 34.
2. Gillian Rose, Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), pp. 1-24 and 241-57 for this argument in full.
3. See also Max Silverman, 'Re-figuring "the Jew" in France' in Bryan Cheyette and Laura Marcus (eds), Modernity, Culture and 'the Jew' (Berkeley: Univer- sity of California Press, forthcoming).
4. Jean-François Lyotard, Heidegger and 'the jews', trans. Andreas Michel and Mark S. Roberts (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), p. 3.
5. Geoff Bennington, 'Lyotard and "the Jews"', in Marcus and Cheyette (eds), op. cit.
6. Sander Gilman, The Jew's Body (Routledge: London and New York, 1991), p. 91.
7. Zygmunt Bauman, Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 207 and 206-22. Bauman continues this argument in Marcus and Cheyette (eds), op. cit.
8. Bauman, Postmodern Ethics (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993) for a possible way out of this doubleness.
9. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (London: Verso, 1993), pp. 205-23.
10. Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin, 'Diaspora: generation and the ground of Jewish identity', Critical Inquiry, 19 (Summer 1993), pp. 721 and 693-725.
11. R. B. Kitaj, First Diasporist Manifesto (London: Thames & Hudson, 1989). Further references to this work will be in parentheses in the text.
12. Alan Sinfield, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), p. 264.
13. Joseph Udelson, Dreamer of the Ghetto: The Life and Works of Israel Zangwill (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1990) for a recent account of Zangwill in these terms.
14. Neil Larry Shumsky, 'Zangwill's The Melting Pot: ethnic tensions on stage', American Quarterly, 27, (March 1975), p. 29.
15. Further references to Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot (London: Globe Publishing Co., 1925) will be in parentheses in the text.
16. Philip Dodd, 'Englishness and the national culture', in Robert Colls and Philip Dodd (eds), Englishness and Culture 1880-1920 (London: Croom Helm, 1986), p. 22.
17. Cohen, op. cit., p. 34. Cohen echoes Morrison's Tar Baby (London and New York: Chatto & Windus, 1981) which enacts the lives of those who are forced to 'black up or universal out'.
18. Letter, 12 June 1916, in Joseph Cohen, Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918 (London: Robson Books, 1975), p. 149.
19. Adam Phillips, On Flirtation (London: Faber & Faber, 1994), pp. 175-95.
20. See also Bryan Cheyette, Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
21. Letter, 15 June 1916, to R. C. Trevelyan, in Ian Parsons (ed.), The Col- lected Works of Isaac Rosenberg, (London: Chatto & Windus, 1979), p. 235
22. Letter, 23 July 1916, to Gordon Bottomley, in Parsons, op. cit., p. 238.
23. Steven Connor, The English Novel in History (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), p. 85.
24. Salman Rushdie, 'Imaginary Homelands' (1982), in Imaginary Home- lands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 (London: Granta Books, 1991), pp. 20 and 9-21.
25. ' "On the Edge of the Imagination": Clive Sinclair interviewed by Bryan Cheyette', Jewish Quarterly, 3-4 (1984), pp. 26-9.
26. See also the entry on Sinclair in World Authors: 1985-1990 (New York: H. W. Wilson & Co., 1995), pp. 818 and 818-20.
27. Sinclair's stories have been republished as For Good or Evil: Collected Stories (London: Penguin, 1991). Further refer- ences to this work will be in parentheses in the text.
28. Clive Sinclair, Diaspora Blues: A View of Israel (London: Heinemann, 1987), pp. 50-3, 65 and 202
29. Sinclair's Blood Libels (London: Allison & Busby, 1985)
30. Cosmetic Effects (London: Andre Deutsch, 1989)
31. and Augustus Rex (London: Andre Deutsch, 1992) will be referred to in parentheses in the text.
32. Peter Conradi, 'Elaine Feinstein: life and novels', Literary Review (April, 1982), pp. 24-5.
33. Olga Kenyon, Writing Women: Contemporary Women Novelists (London: Pluto Press, 1991), pp. 39-50 for this argument.
34. Jay L. Halio (ed.), British Novelists Since 1960 (Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1983) for this argument and Glenda Abramson (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989).
35. References to Feinstein's The Border (London: Hutchinson, 1984) will be in parentheses in the text.
36. Mark Shechner, The Conversion of the Jews and Other Essays (London: Macmillan, 1990), p. 100.
37. Ephraim Sicher, Beyond Marginality: Anglo-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust (New York: State University of New York Press, 1985).
38. Martin Esslin, Pinter: The Playwright (London: Methuen, 1982), pp. 121-30.
39. I will be referring to Pinter's The Dwarfs: A Novel (London: Faber & Faber, 1990) and Margaret Rose (ed.), The Birthday Party (London: Faber & Faber, 1993) in parentheses in the text.
40. John Skinner, The Fictions of Anita Brookner (London: Macmillan, 1992),
41. See, for example, John Haffenden, Novelists in Interview (London: Methuen, 1985), p. 60 where Brookner describes the Polish-Jewish back- ground of her parents.
42. Anita Brookner, 'Aches and pains of assimilation', The Observer, April (1989), p. 44.
43. Steiner, 'Our Homeland, the text' (1985), in No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995 (London: Faber & Faber, 1996) pp. 305 and 304-27.
44. Further references to this essay and Proofs and Three Parables (London: Faber & Faber, 1992) will be in parentheses in the text.