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20 - Landscapes: America and the Americas

from American Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Hana Wirth-Nesher
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Tel-Aviv University
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This chapter suggests that landscape offers an especially productive lens through which to re-envision Jewish American literary studies in hemispheric terms. Postcolonial critiques of New World landscape representation articulated by contemporary visual artists such as Kent Monkman, Jin-me Yoon, and Roseângela Rennó continue to foreground landscape as a site of New World identity formation even as they present those identities as contested. Twentieth century Jewish North American culture is typically perceived as urban in its orientation. Jewish North American writers engage landscape and nature as a gesture of emplacement in American space. The literary project of Jewish American territorialization echoes and ironically reproduces that of the dominant Euro-American settler society, which seeks to assert its autochthony and belonging to the land. The chapter examines the complexities and contradictions surrounding the deployment of narratives of settlement by what Malissa Phung calls unsettled settlers.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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