The Elsewhere
"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."
397 pages, 4 editions
English edition · First published 2005 by University of Wisconsin Press · ISBN 9780299208905
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Editions
4 editions
English
- The elsewhere · University of Wisconsin Press · 2005 · ISBN 9780299208905 This page
- The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance : Reading Literary Memoir From Europe and the Levant · University of Wisconsin Press · 2005 · ISBN 9781282269781
- The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance : Reading Literary Memoir From Europe and the Levant · University of Wisconsin Press · 2005 · ISBN 9786612269783
- The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance : Reading Literary Memoir From Europe and the Levant · University of Wisconsin Press · 2005 · ISBN 9780299208936
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