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Israel in the Making : Stickers, Stitches, and Other Critical Practices /
The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people. Hagar Salamon examines creativity in Israel's public sphere through the lively di...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : studying Israeli folklore
- Folklore in the Israeli public arena
- Invitation : bumper stickers as a podium in motion
- Folklore as an emotional battleground : political bumper stickers
- "We the people" : "Ha'am" in the turbulent sphere of Israeli roads
- Kinetic cosmologies : sovereign and sovereignty
- Recapitulation : public interaction on the move
- Expressions in the intimate arena of embroidery
- Invitation : embroidering identity
- needlework and needle-talk
- Embroidering their selves : femininity and embroidery in a Jerusalem women's group
- Life story as a foundation legend of local identity
- The intimate career of a transitional object : needlepoint embroideries
- Recapitulation : needle texts
- knowledge, passion, and empowerment
- Between the public and the private
- the mirrors of ambivalence
- Invitation : emplacing Israeliness
- shifting performances of belonging and otherness
- The floor falling away : dislocated space and body in the humor of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel
- What goes around, comes around : rotating credit associations among Ethiopian women in Israel
- "David Levi" jokes : the ambivalence over the levantinization of Israel
- Recapitulation : between longing and belonging : the folkloric expressions of ambivalence
- Closing words : the birth of public enunciation from the spirit of everyday life.