‘Jewish Cricket’: Black-Jewish Relations in Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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Yn: Jewish Culture and History, Cyfrol 20, Rhif 3, 2019, t. 234-247.
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
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T1 - ‘Jewish Cricket’
T2 - Black-Jewish Relations in Wondrous Oblivion (2003)
AU - Abrams, Nathan
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This article explores Black-Jewish relations as presented through the prism of the 2003 film Wondrous Oblivion, directed by Paul Morrison. The period which the film revisits is that of the transition between the 1950s and 1960s when Britain was starting to become a multicultural society. Set in South London in 1960, Wondrous Oblivion is a coming of age story focusing on David Wiseman (Sam Smith), an eleven-year-old, second-generation Jewish boy who aspires to be a first-class cricketer. David lives in an England still unmarked by significant racial difference and in a world of casual anti-Semitism in which his family straddles the boundary between being immigrants and white English. Through cricket, David is able to mimic the dominant norms of English society and successfully integrate but on his own terms which simultaneously resist the dominant values.
AB - This article explores Black-Jewish relations as presented through the prism of the 2003 film Wondrous Oblivion, directed by Paul Morrison. The period which the film revisits is that of the transition between the 1950s and 1960s when Britain was starting to become a multicultural society. Set in South London in 1960, Wondrous Oblivion is a coming of age story focusing on David Wiseman (Sam Smith), an eleven-year-old, second-generation Jewish boy who aspires to be a first-class cricketer. David lives in an England still unmarked by significant racial difference and in a world of casual anti-Semitism in which his family straddles the boundary between being immigrants and white English. Through cricket, David is able to mimic the dominant norms of English society and successfully integrate but on his own terms which simultaneously resist the dominant values.
KW - mimicry
KW - Film
KW - sport
KW - black-Jewish relations
KW - cricket
KW - antisemitism
KW - Jews
KW - Jewishness
U2 - 10.1080/1462169X.2019.1639334
DO - 10.1080/1462169X.2019.1639334
M3 - Article
VL - 20
SP - 234
EP - 247
JO - Jewish Culture and History
JF - Jewish Culture and History
SN - 1462-169X
IS - 3
ER -