ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has addressed the transference of the concerns of European Jews onto the distant location of the Caribbean in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The following chapter considers post-1948 European-Jewish writers’ negotiation between Europe and Israel as potential homelands. Chochana Boukhobza (b. 1959), a Tunisian-Jewish woman who lives in France, and Jeannette Lander (b. 1931), an American woman of immigrant Polish-Jewish parents living in Germany, explore issues of Jewish, gender, and national identity as they cope with their diasporic positioning. Lander and Boukhobza differ from the authors discussed previously, who have also been living in the diaspora in Europe, because they are furthermore transnational, exilic, writing in foreign languages and in foreign countries, and in Boukhobza’s case, postcolonial. The following discussion therefore considers how late twentieth-century Jewish identity and experience complicate models of minor, postcolonial, and transnational literature.
