Jewish fantasy worldwide : trends in speculative stories from Australia to Chile /: trends in speculative stories from Australia to Chile. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Valerie Estelle Frankel.
• Editors: Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980-
• Contents: Chapter 1. Jewish Speculative Fiction in Australia and New Zealand <span style="font-style:italic;">Gillian Polack and Bettina Burger Chapter 2. The Wandering Messiah in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Imaginary Universes <span style="font-style:italic;">Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang Chapter 3. When Jews Ruled the Volga: Exploring the Novels of the Khazars <span style="font-style:italic;">Steven B. Frankel Chapter 4. Kabbalist Rap: A Love Song for the Torah in Victoria Hanna’s Music Video אורייתא <span style="font-style:italic;">Katharina Hadassah Wendl Chapter 5. Djinn, Hauntings, and Double Consciousness: An Exploration of Mizrahi Magical Realism <span style="font-style:italic;">Valerie Estelle Frankel Chapter 6. Alternate History and Jewish Anxiety in Philip Roth’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Plot Against America <span style="font-style:italic;">Ilana Goldstein Chapter 7. Leybl Botwinik’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Di Geheyme Shlikhes : A Groundbreaking Yiddish Science-Fiction Novel <span style="font-style:italic;">Stephen M. Cohen Chapter 8. Ancient Jewish Elements in 21st Century Alfredian Fanfiction <span style="font-style:italic;">Martine Mussies Chapter 9. Free Will, Kabbalah, Human Nature, and Messiah: Chaim Cigan’s Time Cruise via Parallel Histories and Identities <span style="font-style:italic;">Michaela Weiss Chapter 10. Contra Torrentem: Leo Perutz’s <span style="font-style:italic;">By Night Under the Stone Bridge and Central European Fantasy <span style="font-style:italic;">Cameron Barrows Chapter 11. Motifs of Secrecy, the Hidden and the Unspoken in the Novels of Isaac Asimov and Stanislaw Lem <span style="font-style:italic;">Julie A. Hawkins Chapter 12. Soviet Science Fiction of the 1960s and Jewishness: The Cases of Ilya Varshavsky and Gennady Gor <span style="font-style:italic;">Marat Grinberg Chaper 13. Seeking a Promised Land: Estrangement and Belonging in Queer Jewish Speculative Fiction <span style="font-style:italic;">Akiva Hoffman Chapter 14. Why are Science Fiction Anthologies Ashkanormative? <span style="font-style:italic;">Mara W. Cohen Ioannides and Valerie Estelle Frankel Chapter 15. Writing the Jewish Heroine’s Journey <span style="font-style:italic;">Evonne Marzouk and Patti McCarthy Chapter 16. Teaching Jewish Speculative Fiction <span style="font-style:italic;">Judy Klass
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (324 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.3876; Speculative fiction -- History and criticism; Speculative fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Fantasy fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Science fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Jews in literature; Judaism in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781666926613
• Related ISBNs: 9781666926606
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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