Signatures of Struggle
The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 26. September 2018
296 pages
978-1-4384-7245-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Digital original
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Reflowable
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Total Illustrations: 2
Total Illustrations: 2
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978-1-4384-7245-4 (9781438472454)
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Oded Nir is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Periodizing Israeli Literature
1. Prehistory: Zionist Hebrew Literary Realism, between Altneuland and Khirbet Khizeh
2. From Utopian Project to Utopian Compensation in 1950s Works by Yigal Mossinsohn and Nathan Shaham
3. Then as Farce: Naturalism and Disavowed Failure in 1950s Hebrew Novels by Hanoch Bartov and Yehudit Hendel
4. Is There Israeli Postmodern Literature? Orly Castel-Bloom, Yehudit Katzir, and the Vicissitudes of National Space-Time in the 1980s and 1990s
5. Disorientation and the Genres: David Grossman, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Batya Gur
6. Time in Hiding: Israeli Fiction and Neoliberalism
7. In Search of New Time: Renarrating Soldier, Pioneer, and the Tel Aviv Subject-to-Come
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Periodizing Israeli Literature
1. Prehistory: Zionist Hebrew Literary Realism, between Altneuland and Khirbet Khizeh
2. From Utopian Project to Utopian Compensation in 1950s Works by Yigal Mossinsohn and Nathan Shaham
3. Then as Farce: Naturalism and Disavowed Failure in 1950s Hebrew Novels by Hanoch Bartov and Yehudit Hendel
4. Is There Israeli Postmodern Literature? Orly Castel-Bloom, Yehudit Katzir, and the Vicissitudes of National Space-Time in the 1980s and 1990s
5. Disorientation and the Genres: David Grossman, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Batya Gur
6. Time in Hiding: Israeli Fiction and Neoliberalism
7. In Search of New Time: Renarrating Soldier, Pioneer, and the Tel Aviv Subject-to-Come
Notes
Bibliography
Index
