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

我的博士论文将研究英美犹太作家在19世纪80年代末和90年代初的跨文化叙事策略。我的提案关注的是视角如何被用作发现和表达一个人的文化的工具，以及作家如何在文化内和文化间的空间之间进行协商。它的中心焦点将是以色列·赞威尔和艾米·莱维的散文小说，它将从三个方面来探讨他们的作品。首先，通过将他们的小说视为案例研究，补充并提出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，探讨城市流动性对跨文化交际所必需的叙事定位的影响。最后，它将考察列维和臧威尔的散文非虚构作品的材料和接受背景，以确定在他们的长篇小说作品中，社区内部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，并因此做出贡献。城市流动性和叙事学实验为理解犹太人在历史上是如何被表达的提供了关键。相反，犹太人的例子使用来阅读它们的关键镜头复杂化，例如，允许对叙事理论的未来和局限性进行评估的研究。

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.