Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals?: Antisemitism, Colonialism and Modern Constructions of Jewish Identity

This collection of essays will explore the possibility of applying perspectives developed in the context of Gender and Postcolonial Studies to Jewish Cultural Studies and Studies in Antisemitism. The volume is the third multidisciplinary research output of the international research network Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism, and Occidentalism (ReNGOO). The network’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions, with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations as well as in constructions of orientalist images both from without and from within. The focus is on research concerning the orientalization and self-orientalization of Jews.