Research Catalog

Title

Identity and modern Israeli literature / Risa Domb.

Author

Domb, Risa.

Publication

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.

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Description

107 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Explores through literature the long and complex evolution of Jewish identity in Israel and the central role that language, ideology, memory, and culture have played in that journey.

Subject

• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Israeli fiction > History and criticism
• Jews > Identity

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1: Introduction -- 2: Language and identity -- 3: 'Ut Pictura Poesis' : the expression of ideology in Nathan Shaham's Series -- 4: Touching the pain : memory and identity in The last Jew by Yoram Kaniuk -- 5: The poetics of unsaying : the identity crisis of the modern Jew in The story of a life by Aharon Appelfeld -- 6: The loneliness of the wanderers : Water touching water by Sami Michael -- 7: Crossing borders : the clash of civilizations in The liberating bride by A.B. Yehoshua -- 8: Nothing is as it was : time and change in Heatwave and crazy birds by Gabriela Avigur-Rotem.

ISBN

• 9780853036609 (pbk.)
• 0853036608 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007271007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library