JEWISHNESS AND WORLD HISTORY IN CLIVE SINCLAIR’S DEATH & TEXAS
JEWISHNESS AND WORLD HISTORY IN CLIVE SINCLAIR’S DEATH & TEXAS

Summary/Abstract: The title of British Jewish writer Clive Sinclair's fourth collection of short stories, Death & Texas (2014), is somewhat misleading because Texas is not the local setting for all of the stories, as some of them take place in other parts of the United States, and even in other countries. Death is a central theme in all eight stories, as characters face the threat of death or cope with the death of loved ones. Some stories place the topic of death in the context of historical violence, especially from the perspective of Jewish heroes, writers or artists dealing with world history and the portrayal of historical events in popular culture. This article therefore aims to examine the representation of Judaism and the reflection of world history in the collection of stories in question.

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