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Signatures of struggle : the figuration of collectivity in Israeli fiction /
A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations. Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir mov...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in contemporary Jewish literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Periodizing Israeli Literature; Summary of the Argument; Periodizing Israeli Literature, or Trying to Imagine the Present; 1 Prehistory: Zionist Hebrew Literary Realism, between Altneuland and Khirbet Khizeh; The Structure of Literary Utopia; From Utopia to Realism; Khirbet Khizeh and the Crisis of the Halutzic Transformative Imaginary; 2 From Utopian Project to Utopian Compensation in 1950s Works by Yigal Mossinsohn and Nathan Shaham
- Individuality as the Preservation of Historicity: Yigal Mossinsohn's The Way of a Man and the Crisis of the Halutzic Revolutionary ProjectThe Palmach is not a Place, or Alienation from History in Shaham's "Always We"; 3 Then as Farce: Naturalism and Disavowed Failure in 1950s Hebrew Novels by Hanoch Bartov and Yehudit Hendel; Each has Six Wings and the National Deus ex Machina; The Political Secret of Nostalgia in Hendel's Street of Steps; Realism's Demise, Materially
- 4 Is There Israeli Postmodern Literature? Orly Castel-Bloom, Yehudit Katzir, and the Vicissitudes of National Space-Time in the 1980s and 1990sPlayful Disorientation in Orly Castel-Bloom's Where am I?; Closing the Sea and the Affirmation of the Allegorical; 5 Disorientation and the Genres: David Grossman, Yehoshua Kenaz, and Batya Gur; The Smile of the Lamb and The Pursuit of Peace; Infiltration, or, the Postmodern Soldier; The Detective Returns: Batya Gur and Social Totality; 6 Time in Hiding: Israeli Fiction and Neoliberalism; Searching for Time in a Neoliberal Landscape: Einat Yakir's Sand
- Death and Temporality in Ofir Touché Gafla's The Day the Music DiedContemporary Israeli Literary Criticism and Neoliberalism; 7 In Search of New Time: Renarrating Soldier, Pioneer, and the Tel Aviv Subject-to-Come; Beaufort, or, Utopia against Neoliberalism; The Hebrew Condition and the Art of Failure; Fulfillment as an Allegory of a Representational Crisis, or, the Parable of the Donkey and the Fruit Soup; Note Toward the Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index