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• Leaving Other People Alone reads, through the lens of diaspora theory and world literature, contemporary works of Jewish fiction written from North America that take Israel/Palestine as its subject matter
• The book focuses on how writers engage with ideas of belonging, diaspora, home, and Zionism
• It covers works by canonical Jewish authors such as Theodor Herzl and Philip Roth while also including less well-known writers such as David Bezmozgis and Ayelet Tsabari and famous Palestinian authors Susan Abulhawa and Randa Jarrar
• Kreuter argues that any work of Jewish fiction that concerns itself with Israel/Palestine and Zionism has a number of heightened responsibilities, primarily the making of narrative space for the Palestinian narrative/worldview
• Kreuter situates the literature he discusses in its specific historical, political, social, and cultural context, which contributes to his well-contextualised and sophisticated analysis
• Kreuter has published two books and two volumes of poetry and has won awards for his scholarly writing.
Audience:
Scholars in the fields of Jewish and diaspora literatures, diasporic world literatures, Jewish studies, and Israel/Palestine studies.