Table of Contents
Introduction Carola Hilfrich Natasha Gordinsky Susanne Zepp 1
Part 1
Ail! - Il ne faut pas le dire - / Oy! - You Mustn't Say That Hélène Cixous Eric Prenowitz 8
The Depository of Zugehör: Ail! and the Soundscape of Belonging Carola Hilfrich 48
Vous trouverez ce livre … / You'll find this book… Cécile Wajsbrot Susanne Zepp 54
"Vous trouverez ce livre …"-Cécile Wajsbrot and the Art of Belonging Stephanie Bung 58
$$$ / Shortcuts Home; East German China Alex Epstein Becka Mara McKay 66
Smuggled Belongings: Alex Epstein's Fiction of Immigration Natasha Gordinsky 68
$$$ / Ana min al-yahoud-I'm one of the Jews Almog Behar Vivian Eden 74
"The Same Words, Perhaps a Bit More Broken": Multiple Belongings in Almog Behar's "Ana Min al-Yahoud" Yael Kenan 90
Part II
French Scholem, or: Scholem's Purloined Letter Ruth Ginsburg 107
Belonging Destabilized: Anton Shammas's Arabesques Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan 126
Derrida's Appartenances: A Footnote on Language and Belonging Vivian Liska 138
De-essentialized Belonging: Poetics of the Self in Joyce Mansour and Clarice Lispector Susanne Zepp 150
Form and Language: Alejandra Pizarnik's Spatial Poetics of Un/Belonging Anastasia Telaak 169
Architectures of Absence: Nicole Krauss's Novel Great House Sonja Dickow 194
Part III
Introduction to Svetlana Boym's "Remembering Forgetting" Masha Gessen 211
Remembering Forgetting. Tale of a Refugee Camp Svetlana Boym 214
Svetlana Boym Remembers Forgetting Sasha Senderovich 234
Notes on Contributors 236