The Elsewhere: On Belonging at a Near Distance

by Adam Zachary Newton

"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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299208907
• ISBN13: 9780299208905
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"