Book Summary
"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."
Book Details
| Book Name | The Elsewhere: On Belonging At A Near Distance |
| Author | Adam Zachary Newton |
| Publisher | University Of Wisconsin Press (Jul 2005) |
| ISBN | 9780299208905 |
| Pages | 397 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 2651 |
