Ghetto Walls: The Intercultural Narrative Strategies of Late Victorian Anglo-Jewish Writers

我的博士论文将研究19世纪80年代末和19世纪90年代初英裔犹太作家的跨文化叙事策略。我的建议关注的是视角如何被用作发现和表达自己文化的工具，以及作家如何在文化内空间和文化间空间之间谈判边界。它的中心将是以色列赞威尔和艾米·利维的散文小说，并将以三种方式处理他们的作品。首先，通过将他们的小说视为案例研究，补充和质疑了最近对维多利亚晚期叙事技巧的道德取向的批评兴趣。然后，通过与乔治·艾略特和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的比较，思考城市流动对跨文化交流所必需的叙事定位是如何影响的。最后，它将考察利维和赞威尔的非虚构散文的材料和接受语境，以确定在他们较长的虚构作品中发挥作用的社区内和社区间边界的特殊导航。这个项目的目的是在多个关键领域之间进行一次相遇，从而为之做出贡献。城市流动性和叙事学实验为理解犹太性是如何在历史上被表达出来的提供了关键。相反，犹太人的例子使用来阅读它们的批评镜头变得复杂，例如，允许进行一项评估叙事理论的未来和局限性的研究。

My doctoral dissertation will investigate the intercultural narrative strategies of Anglo-Jewish writers during the late 1880s and early 1890s. My proposal is concerned with how perspective is used as a tool to discover and express one's culture and with how writers negotiate the borders between intracultural and intercultural spaces. Its central focus will be the prose fiction of Israel Zangwill and Amy Levy and it will approach their works in three ways. First, by viewing their novels as case studies that complement and problematise a recent critical interest in the moral orientation of late Victorian narrative techniques. Then, through a comparison with George Eliot and James Joyce, it will consider how the narratorial positioning necessary for intercultural communication is affected by urban mobility. Finally, it will examine the material and reception contexts of Levy's and Zangwill's prose non-fiction in order to ascertain the particular navigation of intraand inter-communal borders at work in their longer, fictional writings. This project aims to stage an encounter between, and therefore contribute to, multiple critical fields. Urban mobility and narratological experimentation provide keys to understanding how Jewishness has been articulated historically. Inversely, Jewish examples complicate the critical lenses used to read them, for example by allowing for a study that assesses the future of and limits to narrative theory.