Nir Signatures of Struggle

The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7245-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nir, Oded

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Oded Nir is Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.