In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. Much has been written about this aspect of literary modernism generally. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary. As members of a national-ethnic-religious community long denied the rights and privileges of self-determination, with a dramatically internalized sense of exile and landlessness, the Jewish writers at the core of this investigation reimagined their spatial and temporal orientation and embeddedness. They set as the fulcrum of their imagery the metaphorical power of time and space. Where, for instance, non-Jewish writers might tend to view space as a given--an element of their own sense of belonging to a nation at home in a given territory--the Jewish writers discussed herespatialized time: they created an as-if space out of time, out of history. The writers at the heart of this book understood their writing to function as a kind of organ of perception on its own, and thus Jewish literature presents a particularly dynamic system for working out the implications of that understanding. This book ultimately argues that Jewish modernist literature is an indispensable part of the modern library.
Jordan D. Finkin is Visiting Scholar in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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