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Diasporas of the Mind
Literary Studies 69
Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
Bryan Cheyette
In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light
on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers – some at the
heart of the canon, others more marginal – to explore the power and
limitations of the diasporic imagination after the Second World War.
Moving from early responses to the death camps and decolonisation,
through internationally prominent literature after the Second World
War, the book culminates in fresh engagements with contemporary
Jewish, post-ethnic and postcolonial writers.
Cheyette regards many of the 20th- and 21st-century luminaries he
examines – among them Hannah Arendt, Anita Desai, Frantz Fanon,
Albert Memmi, Primo Levi, Caryl Phillips, Philip Roth, Salman
Rushdie, Edward Said, Zadie Smith and Muriel Spark – as critical
exemplars of the diasporic imagination. Against the discrete disciplinary
thinking of the academy, he elaborates and argues for a new
comparative approach across Jewish and postcolonial histories and
literatures. And in so doing, Cheyette illuminates the ways in which
histories and cultures can be imagined across national and communal
boundaries.
January
336 pp. 234x156mm.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-09318-6 £30.00
Bryan Cheyette is professor of modern literature at the University of
Reading.
Translation rights: Curtis Brown, London
Swann’s Way
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1
The C. K. Scott Moncrieff Translation
Marcel Proust • Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter
One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first
volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of
Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has
never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages.
English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and fine
translation of the novel from Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff. With the
passage of time, however, the need for corrections, revisions and
annotations to the Scott Montcrieff translation has become apparent.
Esteemed Proust scholar William C. Carter celebrates the publication
centennial of Swann’s Way with a new, more accurate and illuminating
edition of the first volume of In Search of Lost Time. Carter corrects
previous translating missteps to bring readers closer to Proust’s
intentions while also providing enlightening notes to clarify
biographical, historical and social contexts. Presented in a readerfriendly
format alongside the text, these annotations will enrich and
deepen the experience of Proust’s novel, immersing readers in the world
of an unsurpassed literary genius.
January
480 pp. 234x156mm.
PB ISBN 978-0-300-18543-0 £12.99*
William C. Carter is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of landmark
biographical works on Proust and is currently at work on subsequent
volumes of the Yale annotated edition of In Seach of Lost Time, to be
published annually in coming years.