Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Ail! – Il ne faut pas le dire – / Oy! – You Mustn’t Say That -- The Depository of Zugehör: Ail! and the Soundscape of Belonging -- Vous trouverez ce livre … / You’ll find this book … -- “Vous trouverez ce livre ...” – Cécile Wajsbrot and the Art of Belonging -- קיצורי דרך הביתה, חרסינה מזרח גרמנית / Shortcuts Home; East German China -- Smuggled Belongings: Alex Epstein’s Fiction of Immigration -- אַנַא מִן אַלְ-יַהוּד / Ana min al-yahoud – I’m one of the Jews -- “The Same Words, Perhaps a Bit More Broken”: Multiple Belongings in Almog Behar’s “Ana Min al-Yahoud” -- Part II -- French Scholem, or: Scholem’s Purloined Letter -- Belonging Destabilized: Anton Shammas’s Arabesques -- Derrida’s Appurtenances: A Footnote on Language and Belonging -- De-essentialized Belonging: Poetics of the Self in Joyce Mansour and Clarice Lispector -- Form and Language: Alejandra Pizarnik’s Spatial Poetics of Un/Belonging -- Architectures of Absence: Nicole Krauss’s Novel Great House -- Part III -- Introduction to Svetlana Boym’s “Remembering Forgetting” -- Remembering Forgetting. Tale of a Refugee Camp -- Svetlana Boym Remembers Forgetting -- Notes on Contributors

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In the wake of the spatial and affective turns in Literary Studies in general, and the study of Jewish literatures in particular, this volume shifts focus from the extensity of exile and return to the intensities of sense of place and belonging across a moving landscape of 20th and 20st century literatures, Jewish and other. It brings together contemporary writers and literary scholars who collectively map these intensities onto a bodily word world in transit and textures of habitable, readable space as passage.Works by Hélène Cixous, Cécile Wajsbrot, Alex Epstein, Almog Behar, and Svetlana Boym explore sites made up of layers of passages, taking configurations of sayability and readability as forms, poetic and political, of inhabiting the material world. The contributions by literary scholars explore the theoretical potential of a mapping of such sites in studies of modalities of belonging and unbelonging in modern and contemporary works of literature.The volume collects a collaborative investigation of the exigencies and potentialities of sense of place and belonging through literature, Jewish and other. It offers a literary perspective on current debates in a variety of fields, including literary criticism, human geography, architectural theory, and translation studies.

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In English.

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