Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse - "The 'jew's' Passage to India: Hybridity, Globalism, and Diaspora in Anita Desai and Salman Rushdie," - Thursday, April 18, 12 noon, 7th Floor YRT - Room 764

The talk will discuss Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay (1988) and Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sign (1995) as examples of the complexity of the use of the Holocaust and Jewish history in postcolonial and postmodern fiction. Efraim Sicher is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.  He has published on modern […]